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

We seldom break our leg so long as life continues a toilsome upward climb. The danger comes when we begin to take things easily and choose the convenient paths.

Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world.

What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself.

All human life is sunk deep in untruth; the individual cannot pull it out of this well without growing profoundly annoyed with his entire past, without finding his present motives (like honor) senseless, and without opposing scorn and disdain to the passions that urge one on to the future and to the happiness in it.

We must beware of one who is in a passion against us as of one who has once sought our life; for the fact that we still live is due to the absence of power to kill, - if looks could kill, we should have been dead long ago.

Be careful who you choose as your enemy because that's who you become most like.