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

It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual.

The highest type of free men should be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps from tyranny, close to the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Love and hatred are not blind, but are blinded by the fire they bear within themselves.

A man unconsciously imagines that where he is strong, where he feels most thoroughly alive, the element of his freedom must lie.

Man alone resists the direction of gravitation: he constantly wants to fall--upwards.

Remorse.-- Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second.