That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

The best of all things is something entirely outside your grasp: not to be born, not to be, to be nothing. But the second-best thing for you - is to die soon.

Danger alone acquaints us with our own resources, our virtues, our armor and weapons, our spirit, and forces us to be strong.

I love him whose soul is so overfull that he forgetteth himself, and all things are in him: thus all things become his down-going.

Your educators can only be your liberators.

There exists above the "productive" man a yet higher species.

Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.