Around the hero everything turns into a tragedy, around the demigod, a satyr-play, and around God--what? perhaps a "world"?

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

A martyr's disciples suffer more than the martyr.

All words are prejudices.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

There is sense in hoping for recognition in a distant future only when we take it for granted that mankind will remain essentially unchanged, and that whatever is great is not for one age only but will be looked upon as great for all time.

Immortal is the moment when I engendered the recurrence. For the sake of this moment I bear the recurrence.