In almost all sciences the fundamental knowledge is either found in earliest times or is still being sought.

I am one thing, my writings are another.

Acknowledge your will and speak to us all, "This alone is what I will to be!" Hang your own penal code up above you: we want to be its enforcers!

Ah, how little you know of human happiness - you comfortable and benevolent people! For happiness and unhappiness are brother and sister - or even twins who grow up together - or in your case - remain small together!

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men.

The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death.