Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the law could not afterwards be reinstated and this fact was accepted, the predicate gradually changed; - history treats almost exclusively of these bad men who subsequently became good men!

I know no other way to associate with great tasks than as play: as a sign of greatness, this is an essential presupposition.

The people we have employed in an undertaking that has turned out badly should be doubly rewarded.

He who recites dramatic works makes discoveries about his own character.

Body am I entirely, and nothing else; and soul is only a word for something about the body.

Can an ass be tragic?--To perish under a burden that one can neither bear nor cast off? The case of the philosopher.

Out of a brotherly love we occasionally embrace this or that somebody (because we cannot embrace everybody): but we must never letour somebody know it.