He who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves.

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness.

One can also be undignified and flattering toward a virtue.

It is neither the best nor the worst things in a book that defy translation.

Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the law could not afterwards be reinstated and this fact was accepted, the predicate gradually changed; - history treats almost exclusively of these bad men who subsequently became good men!

Heroism--that is the disposition of a man who aspires to a goal compared to which he himself is wholly insignificant. Heroism is the good will to self-destruction.