I love him who desireth not too many virtues. One virtue is more of a virtue than two, because it is more of a knot for one's destiny to cling to.

Will, pure will, without the troubles and complexities of intellect - how happy! how free!

The wheel and the brake have different duties, but also one in common: to hurt one another.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

To blaspheme the earth is now the most dreadful sin, and to rate the heart of the unknowable higher than the meaning of the earth!

Help thyself: then everyone will help thee too. Principle of Christian charity.

In magnanimity there is the same amount of egoism as in revenge, but egoism of a different quality.