"Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those "truths" we once believed."

Only in war are you holy, and when you are robbers and cruel.

Their usual mistaken premise is that they affirm some consensus among people, at least among tame peoples, concerning certain moral principles, and then conclude that these principles must be unconditionally binding also for you and me-or conversely, they see that among different peoples moral valuations are necessarily different and infer from this that no morality is binding-both of which are equally childish.

We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves.

If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved

Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy.

The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness.