You Shall Become The Person You Are.

The Most Spiritual Men, As The Strongest, Find Their Happiness Where Others Would Find Their Destruction: In The Labyrinth, In Hardness Against Themselves And Others, In Experiments. Their Joy Is Self-conquest: Asceticism Becomes In Them Nature, Need, And Instinct. Difficult Tasks Are A Privilege To Them; To Play With Burdens That Crush Others, A Recreation. Knowledge-a Form Of Asceticism. They Are The Most Venerable Kind Of Man: That Does Not Preclude Their Being The Most Cheerful And The Kindliest.

The Higher Culture An Individual Attains, The Less Field There Is Left For Mockery And Scorn.

To Be The Equal Of One's Opponent-this Is The First Condition Of An Honourable Duel.

It Was Modesty That Invented The Word "philosopher" In Greece And Left The Magnificent Overweening Presumption In Calling Oneselfwise To The Actors Of The Spirit--the Modesty Of Such Monsters Of Pride And Sovereignty As Pythagoras, As Plato.

The State Lies In All Languages Of Good And Evil; And Whatever It Says, It Lies-and Whatever It Has, It Has Stolen.