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

I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding, and may succumb through a small matter: thus goeth he willingly over the bridge.

Good prose is written only face to face with poetry.

The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.

Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou wilt live again!

We feign pity when we want to demonstrate our ascendancy over feelings of hostility: but usually in vain. Whenever we notice this,there is an accompanying surge in those hostile sensations.

Yet where is your inner value when you no longer know what it is to breathe freely; when you no longer have freedom over your own selves