At one time or another, almost every politician needs an honest man so badly that, like a ravenous wolf, he breaks into a sheep-fold: not to devour the ram he has stolen, however, but rather to conceal himself behind its wooly back.

If ye would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads!

Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.

What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness

Show me that you are redeemed, and I will believe in your Redeemer.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

The grand style arises when beauty wins a victory over the monstrous.