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

Give me today, for once, the worst throw of your dice, destiny. Today I transmute everything into gold.

People who wish to numb our caution in dealing with them by means of flattery are employing a dangerous expedient, like a sleeping draught, which, if it does not put us to sleep, keeps us all the more awake.

You should seek your enemy, you should wage your war - a war for your opinions. And when your opinion is defeatedy our honesty should still cry triumph over that!

No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.

How little is required for pleasure! The sound of a bagpipe - without music, life would be an error.

The good-they cannot create; they are always the beginning of the end.