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.

Whoever possesses the will to suffering within himself has a different attitude towards cruelty: he does not regard it as inherently harmful and bad.

The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate.

He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.

For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually regards the silence as a sign of contempt.

The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd.

Error has made animals into men; is truth in a position to make men into animals again?