Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

Immortal is the moment when I engendered the recurrence. For the sake of this moment I bear the recurrence.

At heart I am a warrior.

The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing--that is the final recourse of those who support punishment.

We are doubly willing to jump into the water after some one who has fallen in, if there are people present who have not the courage to do so.

Away from God and gods did this will lure me: what would there be to create if gods existed?