When Virtue Has Slept It Will Arise

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.

He That Humbleth Himself Wishes To Be Exalted.

He Who Cannot Give Anything Away Cannot Feel Anything Either.

Suspicious.- To Admit A Belief Merely Because It Is A Custom - But That Means To Be Dishonest, Cowardly, Lazy! - And So Could Dishonesty, Cowardice And Laziness Be The Preconditions For Morality?

Historical Refutation As The Definitive Refutation.- In Former Times, One Sought To Prove That There Is No God - Today One Indicates How The Belief That There Is A God Arose And How This Belief Acquired Its Weight And Importance: A Counter-proof That There Is No God Thereby Becomes Superfluous.- When In Former Times One Had Refuted The 'proofs Of The Existence Of God' Put Forward, There Always Remained The Doubt Whether Better Proofs Might Not Be Adduced Than Those Just Refuted: In Those Days Atheists Did Not Know How To Make A Clean Sweep.