It is terrible to die of thirst in the ocean. Do you have to salt your truth so heavily that it does not even-quench thirst any more?

We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is!

Many deeds are done so as to forget another deed: there are also opiate activities. I exist so that another will be forgotten.

Light for some time to come will have to be called darkness.

That a person cannot and consequently will not defend himself, does not yet cast disgrace upon him in our eyes ; but we despise the person who has neither the ability nor the good will for revenge whether it be a man or a woman.

Subordination to morality can be slavish or vain or self- interested or resigned or gloomily enthusiastic or thoughtless or an act of despair, just as subordination to a prince can be: in itself it is nothing moral.

But are there many honest people who will admit that it is pleasing to give pain?