The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us
Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.
“Evil men have no songs.” How is it, then, that the Russians have songs?
The familiarity of superiors embitters one, because it may not be returned.
But by my love and hope I beseech you: do not throw away the hero in your soul! Hold holy your highest hope!
A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction.