Free will without fate is no more conceivable than spirit without matter, good without evil.

All words are prejudices.

Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.

There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind.

One has renounced the great life when one renounces war.

The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us

The followers of a great man often put their eyes out, so that they may be the better able to sing his praise.