When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

Moderation sees itself as beautiful; it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently ugly-looking.

He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.

Those who are devoid of purpose will make the void their purpose.

Great intellects are skeptical.

Here we also see: what this divinity lacks is not only a sense of shame-and there are also other reasons for conjecturing that in several respects all of the gods could learn from us humans. We humans are-more humane.

To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields.