Disobedience- that is the nobility of slaves.

Yes, life is a woman!

I admire the courage and wisdom of Socrates in everything he did, said--and did not say.

These four, however, seek the freedom of their will at the very point where they are most securely chained. It is as if the silkworm sought freedom of will in spinning. What is the reason?

You implanted your highest goal into the heart of those passions: then they became your virtues and joys.

whatever is profound loves masks; what is most profound even hates image and parable.

What we experience in dreams - assuming that we experience it often - belongs in the end just as much to the over-all economy of our soul as anything experienced "actually": we are richer or poorer on account of it.