The higher its type, the more rarely a thing succeeds.

But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Distrust all those who talk much of their justice!

We must understand how to hide in darkness in order to escape the gnat-swarms of utterly annoying admirers.

The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.

Thus do I want man and woman to be: the one fit to wage war and the other fit to give birth, but both fit to dance with head and feet.

When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly.

No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.