Species do not grow more perfect: the weaker dominate the strong, again and again- the reason being that they are the great majority, and they are also cleverer. Darwin forgot the mind (-that is English!): the weak possess more mind. ... To acquire mind, one must need mind-one loses it when one no longer needs it.

"This - is now my way - where is yours"? Thus did I answer those who asked me "the way". For the way - it does not exist!

Man is the only animal that must be encouraged to live.

We must repay goodness and wickedness: but why exactly to the person who has done us a good or a wicked turn?

The familiarity of superiors embitters one, because it may not be returned.

Socrates and Plato are right: whatever man does he always does well, that is, he does that which seems to him good (useful) according to the degree of his intellect, the particular standard of his reasonableness.

Sometimes we remain true to a cause simply because its opponents are unfailingly tasteless.