The scaffolding must be removed once the house is built.

My humanity is a constant self-overcoming.

I and me are always too deeply in conversation.

When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

Examine the life of the best and most productive men and nations, and ask yourselves whether a tree which is to grow proudly skywards can dispense with bad weather and storms. Whether misfortune and opposition, or every kind of hatred, jealousy, stubbornness, distrust, severity, greed, and violence do not belong to the favourable conditions without which a great growth even of virtue is hardly possible?

I desire that your conjectures should not reach beyond your creative will. Could you create a god? Then do not speak to me of any gods.