Intoxicating joy is it for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, did the world once seem to me.
A martyr's disciples suffer more than the martyr.
Love and hatred are not blind, but are blinded by the fire they bear within themselves.
Everything good is instinct--and, as a result, easy, necessary, free.
Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.
Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven.