One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.

Freedom of opinion is like health; both are individual, and no good general conception can be set up of either of them.

Every one being allowed to learn to read, ruineth in the long run not only writing but also thinking.

In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain.

All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive.

The noble man honours in himself the powerful one, him also who has power over himself, who knows how to speak and how to keep silence, who takes pleasure in subjecting himself to severity and hardness, and has reverence for all that is severe and hard.

One who has given up any hope of winning a fight or has clearly lost it wants his style in fighting to be admired all the more.