Those with very loud voices in their throats are nearly incapable of thinking subtle thoughts.

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

We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are. We adults, on the other hand, have outgrown them and have to lower ourselves to stoop down to them. It seems to me that the grass hates us when we confess our love for it. Whoever would partake of all good things must understand how to be small at times.

[Heraclitus had] a regal air of certainty.

Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil.

One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.

From whatever you wish to know and measure you must take your leave, at least for a time. Only when you have left the town can yousee how high its towers rise above the houses.