Every Talent Must Unfold Itself In Fighting.

However Un-christian This May Sound, I Am Not Even Predisposed Against Myself.

Not Contentment, But More Power; Not Peace At Any Price, But War; Not Virtue, But Efficiency (virtue In The Renaissance Sense, Virtu , Virtue Free Of Moral Acid).

I Have Not The Capability To Give You My Loyalty, Nor Do I Have The Vanity To Appear As If I Did.

[heraclitus Had] Pride Not In Logical Knowledge But Rather In Intuitive Grasping Of The Truth.

The Same Relation Exists Between Merchant And Pirate, Who For A Long Period Are One And The Same Person: Where The One Function Appears To Them Inadvisable, They Exercise The Other.