One is proud to worship when he cannot be an idol.

Necessity is not a fact; it's an interpretation.

The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it. - What does not destroy makes me stronger.

We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of life may become a habit and therefore a pleasure.

Whether a man hides his bad qualities and vices or confesses them openly, his vanity wants to gain an advantage by it in both cases: just note how subtly he distinguishes between those he will hide his bad qualities from and those he will face honestly and candidly.

The courage of all one really knows comes but late in life.

The empty, the one, the unmoved, the full, satiation, wanting nothing--that would be my evil: in short, dreamless sleep.