Brave people may be persuaded to an action by representing it as being more dangerous than it really is.

If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

Those who are failures from the start, downtrodden, crushed -- it is they, the weakest, who must undermine life among men, who call into question and poison most dangerously our trust in life, in man, and in ourselves.

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

Women's modesty generally increases with their beauty.

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