One must repay good and ill; but why just to the person who did us good or ill?
It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual.
The English are the people of consummate cant.
Was mich nicht zugrunde richtet, macht mich starker.
What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.
One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.