Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

Was mich nicht zugrunde richtet, macht mich starker.

It is, indeed, a fact that, in the midst of society and sociability every evil inclination has to place itself under such great restraint, don so many masks, lay itself so often on the procrustean bed of virtue, that one could well speak of a martyrdom of the evil man. In solitude all this falls away. He who is evil is at his most evil in solitude: which is where he is at his best - and thus to the eye of him who sees everywhere only a spectacle also at his most beautiful.

In being wildly natural we recover best from being unnatural, from being spiritual.

The last Christian died on a cross.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

In morality, man treats himself not as individuum but as dividuum.