The same relation exists between merchant and pirate, who for a long period are one and the same person: where the one function appears to them inadvisable, they exercise the other.

The criminal type is the type of the strong human being under unfavorable circumstances: a strong human being made sick.

We are praised or blamed, as the one or the other may be expedient, for displaying to advantage our power of discernment.

You must await your thirst and allow it to become complete: otherwise you will never discover your spring, which can never be anyone else's!

That is an artist as I would have an artist be, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art--panemet Circen.

Here one must think profoundly to the very basis and resist all sentimental weakness: life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, conquest of the strange and weak, suppression, severity, obtrusion of peculiar forms, incorporation, and at the least, putting it mildest, exploitation - but why should one for ever use precisely these words on which for ages a disparaging purpose has been stamped?

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.