People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

Heraclitus was an opponent of all democratic parties.

That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good - the atavism of an old ideal.

He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities.

Whoever knows he is deep tries to be clear, but whoever wants to seem deep to the crowd tries to be obscure. For the crowd supposes that anything it cannot see to the bottom must be deep: it is so timid and goes so unwillingly into the water.

Shackled heart, free spirit.--Whoever binds his heart tightly and imprisons it may indulge his spirit in many liberties: I have already said that once. But no one believes me unless he already knows.