Here we also see: what this divinity lacks is not only a sense of shame-and there are also other reasons for conjecturing that in several respects all of the gods could learn from us humans. We humans are-more humane.

It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that I am inclined to deny that any martyr has ever had anything to do with the truth at all.

One must know how to conserve oneself- the best test of independence.

A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness.

What the father kept silent the son speaks out.

There are people who are so presumptuous that they know no other way to praise a greatness that they publicly admire than by representing it as a preliminary stage and bridge leading to themselves.

Iron necessity is a thing which in the course of history men come to see as neither iron nor necessary.