Love ever your neighbour as yourselves - but first be such as love themselves.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

The highest type of free men should be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps from tyranny, close to the threshold of the danger of servitude.

As long as you still experience the stars as something "above you", you lack the eye of knowledge.

I do not give alms; I am not poor enough for that.

Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness--that means cynically and with innocence.

Death. The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity- and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive.