So live your life of obedience and of war! What matter about long life! What warrior wisheth to be spared!

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

That little hypocrites and half-crazed people dare to imagine that on their account the laws of nature are constantly broken; such an enhancement of every kind of selfishness to infinity, to impudence, cannot be branded with sufficient contempt. And yet Christianity owes its triumph to this pitiable flattery of personal vanity.

There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated

'He who seeks may easily get lost himself. It is a crime to go apart and be alone.' Thus speaks the herd.

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.

The inclination to self-depreciation, to freely accepting being robbed, being duped, and being swindled, could be the modesty of a god among men.