Although you have so far demonstrated little faith in my ability to pay, I yet hope to demonstrate that I am somebody who pays his debts-for example, to you.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Pharisaism is not a degeneration in a good man: a large portion of it is rather the condition of all being-good.

There is nothing very odd about lambs disliking birds of prey, but this is no reason for holding it against large birds of prey that they carry off lambs. And when the lambs whisper among themselves, "These birds of prey are evil, and does this not give us a right to say that whatever is the opposite of a bird of prey must be good," there is nothing intrinsically wrong with such an argument-though the birds of prey will look somewhat quizzically and say, We have nothing against these good lambs; in fact, we love them; nothing tastes better than a tender lamb.

You must climb above yourself-up and beyond, until you have even your stars under you.

We are all afraid of the truth.

It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong.