The greatest giver of alms is cowardice.

One who has a why can endure anyhow.

The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us

Brave people may be persuaded to an action by representing it as being more dangerous than it really is.

Life is a well of joy; but for those out of whom an upset stomach speaks, which is the father of melancholy, all wells are poisoned.

Only he who is man enough will release the woman in woman.

Indeed, what forces us at all to suppose that there is an essential opposition of 'true' and 'false'? Is it not sufficient to assume degrees of apparentness and, as it were, lighter and darker shadows and shades of appearance- different 'values', to use the language of painters?