A nation usually renews its youth on a political sick-bed, and there finds again the spirit which it had gradually lost in seeking and maintaining power.

No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Possessions are usually diminished by possession.

From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions.

And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and demolish values.

The trodden worm curls up. This testifies to its caution. It thus reduces its chances of being trodden upon again. In the language of morality: Humility.

Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.