Higher than "thou shalt" stands "I will" (the heroes), and higher than "I will" stands "I am" (the Greek gods).

For the longest time, marriage has had a guilty conscience about itself. Should we believe it?--Yes, we should believe it.

Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.

Do you call yourself Free? It is your ruling thought that I would hear, and not that you have escaped from a yoke.

Mothers easily become jealous of their sons' friends when they are particularly successful. As a rule a mother loves herself in her son more than she does the son himself.

"State," I call it, where they all drink poison, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all lose themselves, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all call their slow suicide-"life."

Who has not for the sake of his reputation sacrificed himself?