It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal.

Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you.

Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of character becomes a birth gift and afterwards is fostered as a habit.

The best way to give assistance to those who are deeply embarrassed and to calm them down is to praise them decisively.

This is the fundamental idea of culture, insofar as it sets but one task for each of us: to further the production of the philosopher, of the artist, and of the saint within us and outside us, and thereby to work at the consummation of nature.

So live your life of obedience and of war! What matter about long life! What warrior wisheth to be spared!