Rash actions are seldom committed in isolation. With the first rash action we always do too much. So we usually go on to commit asecond one--and then we do too little.

Everything that has been is eternal: the sea will wash it up again.

History belongs above all to the man...who needs models, teachers, comforters and cannot find them among his contemporaries.

It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot.

I have exposed myself and am not ashamed to stand there naked. "Shame" is what we call the monster that attached itself to men when they aspired beyond the animals.

This demand follows from an insight that I was the first to articulate: that there are no moral facts.

Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride and have no prospect of great conquests; for them the easy prey - and that is what all who suffer are - is enchanting.