To accept it without arrogance, to let it go with indifference. Book VIII
One might expect, perhaps, that a man full of genius could pasture in the greatness of his own thoughts, and renounce the cheap approbation of the crowd which he despises; yet he succumbs to the more powerful impulse of the herd instinct. His searching and his finding, his call, belong to the herd. Psychology of the Unconscious
A fool having enjoyed good fortune like intoxication to a great amount becomes more foolish. Fragment
He was a man who looked at what ought to be done, not to the reputation which is got by a man's ac Book I
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