Do you suppose that sacrifice is the hallmark of moral action?--Just stop to consider whether sacrifice is not involved in every action that is done with deliberation, the worst as well as the best.

Truth is only an illusion we have forgotten is an illusion.

Life is fountain of joy; but where the rabble also gather to drink, all wells are poisoned.

Deep is the well of truth and long does it take to know what has fallen into its depths.

One should adpot only those situations in which one is in no need of sham virtues, but rather, like the tight-rope dancer on his tight rope, in which one must either fall or stand--or escape.

Once blasphemy again God was the greatest blasphemy; but God died, and thereupon those blasphemers died too.

Pathetic attitudes are not in keeping with greatness.