A man never speaks of himself without losing something. What he says in his disfavor is always believed, but when he commends himself, he arouses mistrust. Essays
By the streets of "by and by" one arrives at the house of "never." Don Quixote
Where there have been powerful governments, societies, religions, public opinions, in short wherever there has been tyranny, there the solitary philosopher has been hated; for philosophy offers an asylum to a man into which no tyranny can force it way, the inward cave, the labyrinth of the heart. Untimely Meditations
Ah, only he who knows where he sails, knows what wind is good, and a fair wind for him. Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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