No power can be maintained when it is only represented by hypocrites.

Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.

What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do.

Triumph depends on a roll of Fate's dice; the ultimate prize is a place in Heaven.

Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact.

If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy.

It is an end with priests and gods, if man becomes scientific. Moral: science is the thing forbidden in itself - it alone is forbidden. Science is the first sin, the germ of all sin, original sin. This alones is mortality: Thou shalt not know.