Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately decisive.

Not to be cowardly when it comes to our own actions! Not to leave them in the lurch!--The sting of conscience is indecent.

The noble man honours in himself the powerful one, him also who has power over himself, who knows how to speak and how to keep silence, who takes pleasure in subjecting himself to severity and hardness, and has reverence for all that is severe and hard.

One who is unassuming in dealing with people exhibits his arrogance all the more strongly in dealing with things (city, state, society, age, mankind). That is his revenge.

When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

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