Yet tell me, my brothers: if a goal for humanity is still lacking, is there not still lacking--humanity itself?

To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished.

People who feel insecure in social situations never miss a chance to exhibit their dominance over close, submissive friends, whomthey put down publicly, in front of everyone--by teasing, for example.

Where one despises, one cannot wage war.

To discover he is loved in return ought really to disenchant the lover with the beloved.

One unconsciously takes it for granted that doer and sufferer think and feel alike, and according to this supposition we measure the guilt of the one by the pain of the other.

Plato was a bore.