You say a good cause justifies any war; but I say a good war justifies any cause.
The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes.
Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
Where do your greatest dangers lie?--In pity.
A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves- and who want to go where I want to go.
Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir.