One should steal only where one cannot rob.

Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

In magnanimity there is the same amount of egoism as in revenge, but egoism of a different quality.

How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way- not at all or in an interesting manner