To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields.

To be the equal of one's opponent-this is the first condition of an honourable duel.

The domestication (the culture) of man does not go deep--where it does go deep it at once becomes degeneration (type: the Christian). The 'savage' (or, in moral terms, the evil man) is a return to nature--and in a certain sense his recovery, his cure from 'culture'.

The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other world, a place it took to be so firmly set that, standing upon it, it could lift the rest of the world off its hinges and make itself master of it. To the extent that man has for long ages believed in the concepts and names of things as in aeternae veritates he has appropriated to himself that pride by which he raised himself above the animal: he really thought that in language he possessed knowledge of the world.

The beast in us must be[78] wheedled: ethic is necessary, that we may not be torn to pieces.

The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.

"What is good?" ye ask. To be brave is good. Let the little girls say: "To be good is what is pretty, and at the same time touching."