All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them.

All mankind is divided, as it was at all times and is still, into slaves and freemen.

Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls that are capable of bestowing and have their value in the feeling of the plenitude of life.

Whoever has character also has his typical experience, which returns over and over again.

I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

There is perhaps nothing so admirable in Christianity and Buddhism as their art of teaching even the lowest to elevate themselves by piety to a seemingly higher order of things, and thereby to retain their satisfaction with the actual world in which they find it difficult enough to live - this very difficulty being necessary.