I know no other way to associate with great tasks than as play: as a sign of greatness, this is an essential presupposition.

In our interactions with people, a benevolent hypocrisy is frequently required--acting as though we do not see through the motivesof their actions.

And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss.

A good seat on a horse steals away your opponent's courage and your onlooker's heart-what reason is there to attack? Sit like one who has conquered?

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

We can speak very much to the purpose and yet in such a way that the whole world cries out in contradiction: namely, when we are not speaking to the whole world.

Learning from one's enemies is the best way to love them, for it puts one into a grateful mood toward them.