Resistance - that is the distinction of the slave. Let your distinction be obedience. Let your commanding itself be obeying!

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

The coward does not know what it means to be alone: an enemy is always standing behind his chair.

Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.

The man who does not wish to be one of the mass only needs to cease to be easy on himself.

And this do I call immaculate perception of all things: to want nothing else from them, but to be allowed to lie before them as a mirror with a hundred facets.

There is a lake that one day refused to flow away and threw up a dam at the place where it had before flowed out and since then this lake has always risen higher and higher. Perhaps the very act of renunciation provides us with the strength to bear it ; perhaps man will rise ever higher and higher when he no longer flows out into a God.