The magnitude of a progress is gauged by the greatness of the sacrifice that it requires.

Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain.

Worldly Wisdom Do not stay in the field! Nor climb out of sight. The best view of the world Is from a medium height.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what there is to love in man is that he is a going-over and a going-under.

As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified.

People buy their necessities in shops and have to pay dearly for them because they have to assist in paying for what is also on sale there but only rarely finds purchasers: the luxury and amusement goods. So it is that luxury continually imposes a tax on the simple people who have to do without it.

Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy.