Normally, people believe that, if they hear just words, that these words must lead to some thought.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

The soul-stirring image of death is no bugbear to the sage, and is looked on without despair by the pious. It teaches the former to live, and it strengthens the hopes of the latter in salvation in the midst of distress. Death is new life to both.

Nothing is more disgusting than the majority: because it consists of a few powerful predecessors, of rogues who adapt themselves, of weak who assimilate themselves, and the masses who imitate without knowing at all what they want.

He is happy as well as great who needs neither to obey nor to command in order to be something.

The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy.