Everyone needs a sense of shame, but no one needs to feel ashamed.

There is one thing one has to have either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.

If we make sacrifices in doing good or in doing ill, it does not alter the ultimate value of our actions; even if we stake our life in the cause, as martyrs do for the sake of our church : it is a sacrifice to our longing for power, or for the purpose of conserving our sense of power.

What do you believe in?--In this, that the weights of all things must be determined anew.

Some men have sighed over the abduction of their wives, but many more have sighed because no one wanted to abduct theirs.

Style ought to prove that one believes in an idea; not only that one thinks it but also feels it.

One unconsciously takes it for granted that doer and sufferer think and feel alike, and according to this supposition we measure the guilt of the one by the pain of the other.