Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself.

The people we have employed in an undertaking that has turned out badly should be doubly rewarded.

Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.

In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.

A martyr's disciples suffer more than the martyr.

The will to incessant creation is vulgar, betraying jealousy, envy, and ambition. Assuming that you are something, there is really nothing that you need to do-and yet you do a great deal. Above the "productive" man there is still a higher type.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.