Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it; it is the future that makes laws for our today.

Are you genuine? Or just an actor? A representative? Or what it is that is represented?-In the end, you might merely be someone mimicking an actor ... Second question of conscience.

Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious.

The ability to suffer is a small matter - weak women and even slaves can acheive virtuosity in that.

We take a fancy to something: and scarcely have we thoroughly taken a fancy to it when that tyrant in us calls out: "Give me thatin sacrifice"--and we give it.

There are the spiritually consumptive ones: hardly are they born when they begin to die, and long for doctrines of lassitude and renunciation.

Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.