On every parable you ride to every truth.

The arrogance that accompanies merit offends us even more than the arrogance of people who are lacking in merit: since merit itself offends us.

The highest type of free men should be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps from tyranny, close to the threshold of the danger of servitude.

The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it. - What does not destroy makes me stronger.

For out of fear and need each religion is born, creeping into existence on the byways or reason.

Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet at the same time surpass the one they imitate-which human beings love to do.

Truth as Circe. - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal?