You implanted your highest goal into the heart of those passions: then they became your virtues and joys.

To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.

Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

You I advise not to work, but to fight. You I advise not to peace, but to victory. Let your work be a fight, let your peace be a victory!

All rejection and negation indicates a deficiency in fertility: fundamentally, if only we were good plowland we would allow nothing to go unused, and in every thing, event, and person we would welcome manure, rain, or sunshine.

Mastery has been achieved when one neither makes a mistake nor hesitates in the performance.