We must take precautions against being prematurely honed sharp--since at the same time we are being prematurely honed thin.

What is originality? To see something that is as yet without a name, that is as yet impossible to designate, even though it staresus in the face. The way it usually is with people, it is a thing's name that makes it perceptible to them in the first place.--For the most part, the original ones have also been the name-givers.

I have forgotten my umbrella.

The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us

In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.

A good seat on a horse steals away your opponent's courage and your onlooker's heart-what reason is there to attack? Sit like one who has conquered?

I listened for the echo, and I heard only praise —