There is a stupid humility that is quite common and when a person is afflicted with it, he is once and for all disqualified for being a disciple of knowledge.

Woman was God's second mistake.

Pity is extolled as the virtue of prostitutes.

On the heights it is warmer than those in the valley imagine.

Few are made for independence, it is the privilege of the strong.

The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.

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!