Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

The greatest cure for love is still that time honoured medicine - love returned.

Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil.

Do you suppose that sacrifice is the hallmark of moral action?--Just stop to consider whether sacrifice is not involved in every action that is done with deliberation, the worst as well as the best.

This is the fundamental idea of culture, insofar as it sets but one task for each of us: to further the production of the philosopher, of the artist, and of the saint within us and outside us, and thereby to work at the consummation of nature.

Has there ever been anything filthier on earth than the saints in the wilderness? Around them was not only the devil loose around them- but also the swine.

One never perishes through anybody but oneself.