Life is at an end where the kingdom of God begins

The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.

Towards gnats and fleas we should show no pity. We would do right to hang petty thieves, petty calumniators, and slanderers.

People who wish to numb our caution in dealing with them by means of flattery are employing a dangerous expedient, like a sleeping draught, which, if it does not put us to sleep, keeps us all the more awake.

The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power.

The patient. The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree to wait: and both without impatience: - they give no thought to the little people beneath them devoured by their impatience and their curiosity.

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.