If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good.

But thought is one thing, the deed is another, and the image of the deed still another: the wheel of causality does not roll between them.

Instruments and playthings are sense and spirit: behind them there is still the Self. The Self seeketh with the eyes of the senses, it hearkeneth also with the ears of the spirit.

The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard with themselves and with others, in effort; their delight is self-mastery; in them asceticism becomes second nature, a necessity, as instinct.

The free man is a warrior.

The good displeases us when we are not up to it.

All mankind is divided, as it was at all times and is still, into slaves and freemen.