"The surest means of corrupting a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."

"I am not upset that you lied to me, I am upset that from now on I can't believe you."

"To live—is not that just endeavouring to be otherwise than this Nature? Is not living valuing, preferring, being unjust, being limited, endeavouring to be different?"

"The greatest danger for all higher men is that they are called to be judges and executioners of their own time."

"We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once."