Noble and wise men once believed in the music of the spheres: noble and wise men still continue to believe in the "moral significance of existence." But one day even this sphere-music will no longer be audible to them! They will wake up and take note that their ears were dreaming.

Be generous in nature and thought; for this wins respect and gives confidence and power.

Truth as Circe. - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal?

A small revenge is more human than no revenge at all.

One lives for the day, one lives very fast, one lives very irresponsibly: precisely this is called "freedom."

A man should not play the coward to his deeds. He should not repudiate them once he has performed them. Pangs of conscience are indecent.

In compassionate men, severity is a virtue.