Principle of "Christian love": it insists upon being well paid in the end.

What is it that endowed things with meaning, value, significance? The creating heart, which desired, and, out of its desire, created. It created joy and woe. It wanted to satiate itself with woe. We must take all the suffering that has been endured by men and animals upon ourselves and affirm it, and possess a goal in which it acquires reason.

Death is close enough at hand so we do not need to be afraid of life.

What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness

The deeper minds of all ages have had pity for animals.

Rendering oneself unarmed when one had been the best-armed, out of a height of feeling-that is the means to real peace, which must always rest on a peace of mind.

One pays dearly for being immortal: one must die many times during his life.