A martyr's disciples suffer more than the martyr.

In morality, man treats himself not as individuum but as dividuum.

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

He who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves.

Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou wilt live again!

There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.

On the rare occasions when our dreams succeed and achieve perfection - most dreams are bungled - the are symbolic chains of scene and images in place of a narrative poetic language; they circumscribe our experiences or expectations or situations with such poetic boldness and decisiveness that in the morning we are always amazed when we remember our dreams.