When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him.

What is bad? -Everything that arises from weakness.

But by my love and hope I beseech you: do not throw away the hero in your soul! Hold holy your highest hope!

The love of power is the demon of mankind.

How poisonous, how crafty, how bad, does every long war make one, which cannot be waged openly by means of force!

Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home swiftly out of the rays of some insight that suddenly dawned on him, while another thinker offers us nothing but shadows - images in black and grey of what had built up in his soul the day before.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.