That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good - the atavism of an old ideal.

Each word of Heraclitus expresses the pride and the majesty of truth, but of truth grasped in intuitions rather than attained by the rope ladder of logic.

If a woman possesses manly virtues, she is to be run away from; and if she does not possess them, she runs away herself.

Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

Sleep is no mean art.

To get into just those situations where sham virtues will not suffice, but rather where, as with the ropedancer on his rope, one either falls or stands--or gets down.

Young people love what is interesting and odd, no matter how true or false it is. More mature minds love what is interesting and odd about truth. Fully mature intellects, finally, love truth, even when it appears plain and simple, boring to the ordinary person; for they have noticed that truth tends to reveal its highest wisdom in the guise of simplicity.