The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills.

Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.

I have not the capability to give you my loyalty, nor do I have the vanity to appear as if I did.

Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal.

Heroism--that is the disposition of a man who aspires to a goal compared to which he himself is wholly insignificant. Heroism is the good will to self-destruction.

People who feel insecure in social situations never miss a chance to exhibit their dominance over close, submissive friends, whomthey put down publicly, in front of everyone--by teasing, for example.

I presume that you are compassionate: to be without pity means to be sick in body and spirit. But one should have spirit in abundance, so as to be permitted to be compassionate! For your pity is detrimental to you and to everyone.