There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

We seldom break a leg as long as we are climbing wearily upwards in our lives, instead we do it when we start going easy on ourselves and choosing the comfortable paths.

He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.

If you are too weak to give yourselves your own law, then a tyrant shall lay his yoke upon you and say: "Obey! Clench your teeth and obey!" And all good and evil shall be drowned in obedience to him.

The higher you ascend, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. But most of all they hate those who fly.

Man is very well defended against himself... The actual fortress is inaccessible, even invisible to him, unless his friends and enemies play the traitor and conduct him in by a secret path.

There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated