The humanity of famous intellectuals lies in being wrong with gracious courtesy when dealing with those who are not famous.

If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good.

The enjoyment that all morality has given us to now and that it continues to give us--and so, what has kept it going up to now--lies in everyone's right, without lengthy investigation, to praise and blame. And who could endure life without praising and blaming!

A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness.

One is most dishonest to one's god: he is not allowed to sin.

What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old pieties; and only what is old is good. The good men are in all ages those who dig the old thoughts, digging deep and getting them to bear fruit - the farmers of the spirit. But eventually all land is depleted, and the ploughshare of evil must come again and again.

In the stream.- Mighty waters draw much stone and rubble along with them; mighty spirits many stupid and bewildered heads.