So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.

There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties.

Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health.

Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms wants not to be learned but to be learned by heart.

I love the great despisers because they are the great adorers.

Compassion for the friend should conceal itself under a hard shell.

Your enemy shall ye seek; your war shall ye wage, and for the sake of your thoughts! And if your thoughts succumb, your uprightness shall still shout triumph thereby!