We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves.

Forgetting: that is a divine capacity. And whoever aspires to the heights and wants to fly must cast off much that is heavy and make himself light--I call it a divine capacity for lightness.

The flame is not as bright to itself as it is to those it illuminates: so too the sage.

About sacrifice and the offering of sacrifices, sacrificial animals think quite differently from those who look on: but they have never been allowed to have their say.

Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing.

There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and giving birth.

The criminal is quite frequently not equal to his deed: he belittles and slanders it.