Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places.

Love is a boaster at heart, who cannot hide the stolen horse without giving a glimpse of the bridle.

Change is the sum of the universe, and what is of nature ought not to be feared. But one gives it hostages, and lays one's grief upon the gods. Sokrates is free, and would have taught me freedom. But I have yoked the immortal horse that draws the chariot with a horse of earth; and when the one falls, both are entangled in the traces.

The rightness of a thing isn't determined by the amount of courage it takes.

In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.

Tell a man what he may not sing and he is still half free; even all free, if he never wanted to sing it. But tell him what he must sing, take up his time with it so that his true voice cannot sound even in secret -- there, I have seen is slavery.

Never destroy without thought your enemy's pretences; they are usually your best weapon against him.