Everyone who enjoys supposes that the tree was concerned with the fruit, but it was really concerned with the seed. -In this lies the difference between all those who create and those who enjoy.

Subordination to morality can be slavish or vain or self- interested or resigned or gloomily enthusiastic or thoughtless or an act of despair, just as subordination to a prince can be: in itself it is nothing moral.

Sometimes in conversation the sound of our own voice distracts us and misleads us into making assertions that in no way express our true opinions.

Foolish is my happiness, and foolish things will it speak: it is still too young—so have patience with it!

Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

No victor believes in chance.