Strong Currents Drag Many Stones And Bushes

If We Make Sacrifices In Doing Good Or In Doing Ill, It Does Not Alter The Ultimate Value Of Our Actions; Even If We Stake Our Life In The Cause, As Martyrs Do For The Sake Of Our Church : It Is A Sacrifice To Our Longing For Power, Or For The Purpose Of Conserving Our Sense Of Power.

For Both Parties In A Controversy, The Most Disagreeable Way Of Retaliating Is To Be Vexed And Silent; For The Aggressor Usually Regards The Silence As A Sign Of Contempt.

Gradually It Has Become Clear To Me What Every Great Philosophy So Far Has Been: Namely, The Personal Confession Of Its Author And A Kind Of Involuntary And Unconscious Memoir.

Truly, Whoever Possesses Little Is That Much Less Possessed: Praised Be A Little Poverty!

The Surest Way To Corrupt A Youth Is To Instruct Him To Hold In Higher Esteem Those Who Think Alike Than Those Who Think Differently.