The best belongs to me and mine; and if we are not given it, we take it: the best food, the purest sky, the most robust thoughts, the fairest women!

So live your life of obedience and of war! What matter about long life! What warrior wisheth to be spared!

Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.

The problem of culture is seldom grasped correctly. The goal of a culture is not the greatest possible happiness of a people, noris it the unhindered development of all their talents; instead, culture shows itself in the correct proportion of these developments. Its aim points beyond earthly happiness: the production of great works is the aim of culture.

Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don’t throw away the best of yourself.

The English are a nation of consummate cant.

Man is more ape than many of the apes.