To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
No man is a hero to his valet de chamber
People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.
If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die.
In a true tragedy, both parties must be right.
Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.