The noble caste was in the beginning always the barbarian caste: their superiority lay, not in their physical strength, but primarily in their psychical - they were more complete human beings.

One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.

What the sense feeleth, what the spirit discerneth, hath never its end in itself. But sense and spirit would fain persuade thee that they are the end of all things: so vain are they.

Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.

It was the sick and decaying who despised the body and earth and invented the heavenly realm and the redemptive drops of blood: but they took even these sweet and gloomy poisons from body and earth. They wanted to escape their own misery, and the stars were too far for them.