Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm.

Do I advise you to love the neighbor? I suggest rather to escape from the neighbor and to love those who are the farthest away from you. Higher than the love for the neighbor is the love for the man who is distant and has still to come.

What does it matter whether I am shown to be right! I am right too much!--And he who laughs best today will also laugh last.

Smooth iceis paradisefor those who dance with expertise.

Reason" in language - oh, what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar.

My brother, are war and battle evil? Necessary, however, is the evil; necessary are the envy and the distrust and the back-biting among the virtues.

Necessity is not a fact; it's an interpretation.