If you go to see the woman, do not forget the whip.

How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Ah, how little you know of human happiness - you comfortable and benevolent people! For happiness and unhappiness are brother and sister - or even twins who grow up together - or in your case - remain small together!

Every power draws its ultimate consequences at every moment.

It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention.

Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?

The great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily.