Many deeds are done so as to forget another deed: there are also opiate activities. I exist so that another will be forgotten.

Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.

And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?

Away from God and gods did this will lure me: what would there be to create if gods existed?

Brave people may be persuaded to an action by representing it as being more dangerous than it really is.

When man does not have firm, calm lines on the horizon of his life- mountain and forest lines, as it were- then a man's innermost will becomes agitated, preoccupied, and wistful.

There exists above the "productive" man a yet higher species.