Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain.

We are so fond of being out among nature, because it has no opinions about us.

Do I advise you to love the neighbor? I suggest rather to escape from the neighbor and to love those who are the farthest away from you. Higher than the love for the neighbor is the love for the man who is distant and has still to come.

The condition that gives birth to a rule is not the same as the condition to which the rule gives birth.

To the good warrior soundeth "thou shalt" pleasanter than "I will." And all that is dear unto you, ye shall first have it commanded unto you.

It is difficult to live among people because silence is so difficult.

When there is a choice about it, a great sacrifice is preferable to a small sacrifice, because we compensate ourselves for a greatone with self-admiration, which is not possible with a small one.