Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world.

With one more talent one frequently stands with greater instability than with one less, as a table stands better on three legs than on four.

They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.

The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power.

In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose.

"State," I call it, where they all drink poison, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all lose themselves, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all call their slow suicide-"life."

But eternal liveliness is what counts: what does "eternal life" matter, or life at all?