Physician, help yourself: thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help: that he may behold with his eyes the man who heals himself.

Everyone needs a sense of shame, but no one needs to feel ashamed.

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

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.

Many a peacock hides his peacock tail from all eyes--and calls it his pride.

No man ever wrote more eloquently and luminously [than Heraclitus].

Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the law could not afterwards be reinstated and this fact was accepted, the predicate gradually changed; - history treats almost exclusively of these bad men who subsequently became good men!