The people we keep standing in the anteroom of our favor either start fermenting or turn sour.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

Free will without fate is no more conceivable than spirit without matter, good without evil.

Indeed, what forces us at all to suppose that there is an essential opposition of 'true' and 'false'? Is it not sufficient to assume degrees of apparentness and, as it were, lighter and darker shadows and shades of appearance- different 'values', to use the language of painters?

And like a wind shall I one day blow amongst them and with my spirit take away their soul's breath: thus my future wills it.

When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous.

All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.