In short, then, the religious cult is based upon the representations of sorcery between man and man, and the sorcerer is older than the priest.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood.

Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them.

To be the equal of one's opponent-this is the first condition of an honourable duel.

Whoever gives advice to a sick person acquires a feeling of superiority over him, whether the advice be accepted or rejected.

Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make it into an ornament.

What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old pieties; and only what is old is good. The good men are in all ages those who dig the old thoughts, digging deep and getting them to bear fruit - the farmers of the spirit. But eventually all land is depleted, and the ploughshare of evil must come again and again.