Just as in the great moment of resignation one does not mediate but chooses, now the task is to gain proficiency in repeating the impassioned choice and, existing, to express it in existence.

Job endured everything - until his friends came to comfort him, then he grew impatient.

My tactics were, by God's aid, to employ every means to make it clear what the requirement of Christianity truly is.

Don't you know that a midnight hour comes when everyone has to take off his mask? Do you think life always lets itself be trifled with? Do you think you can sneak off a little before midnight to escape this?

The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.

All moral elevation consists first and foremost of being weaned from the momentary.

To grumble about the world and its unhappiness is always easier than to beat one's breast and groan over oneself.