If virtue goes to sleep, it will be more vigorous when it awakes.

Do ask yourself why you, the individual, exist, and if you can get no other answer try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting before yourself an aim, a goal, a 'to this end', an exalted and noble 'to this end'.

Prejudice of the learned. - The learned judge correctly that people of all ages have believed they know what is good and evil, praise- and blameworthy. But it is a prejudice of the learned that we now know better than any other age.

When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life.

In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.

In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage.

What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.