The reason adultery is immoral is that it might lead to marriage.

We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that.

Pathetic attitudes are not in keeping with greatness.

The essential thing ‘in heaven and earth’ is that there should be a long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living.

A physician who treated me as a nervous case for a while said in the end "No! It is not a matter of your nerves; it is I who am nervous".

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

Can an ass be tragic?--To perish under a burden that one can neither bear nor cast off? The case of the philosopher.