But say, my brothers, what can the child do that even the lion could not do? Why must the preying lion still become a child? The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a sacred 'Yes.' For the game of creation, my brothers, a sacred 'Yes' is needed: the spirit now wills his own will, and he who had been lost to the world now conquers his own world.

You must await your thirst and allow it to become complete: otherwise you will never discover your spring, which can never be anyone else's!

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

I have not the capability to give you my loyalty, nor do I have the vanity to appear as if I did.

One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.

Men submit from habit to everything that seeks power.

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