A vocation makes us unthinking; that is its greatest blessing. For it is a bulwark behind which we are permitted to withdraw whencommonplace doubts and cares assail us.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Danger alone acquaints us with our own resources, our virtues, our armor and weapons, our spirit, and forces us to be strong.

The higher you ascend, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. But most of all they hate those who fly.

Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'.

Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil.

Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity-and finally liberty is bestowed by sleep.