Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. The Art Of War

Above all, you can believe in Providence in either of two ways, either as thirst believes in the orange, or as the ass believes in the whip. The Man Who Laughs

In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man. Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Be it well understood, I am free by compulsion, whether I wish to be or not. Freedom is not an activity pursued by an entity that, apart from and previous to such pursuit, is already possessed of a fixed being. To be free means to be lacking in constitutive identity, not to have subscribed to a determined being, to be able to be other than what one was, to be unable to install oneself once and for all in any given being. The only attribute of the fixed, stable being in the free being is this constitutive instability. History as a System