Ye shall only have foes to be hated; but not foes to be despised: ye must be proud of your foes.

The same relation exists between merchant and pirate, who for a long period are one and the same person: where the one function appears to them inadvisable, they exercise the other.

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.

I have exposed myself and am not ashamed to stand there naked. "Shame" is what we call the monster that attached itself to men when they aspired beyond the animals.

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

Do you call yourself Free? It is your ruling thought that I would hear, and not that you have escaped from a yoke.

I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.