The best lack all conviction$$$ while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
We can only begin to live when we conceive life as tragedy.
All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
Let us go forth$$$ the tellers of tales$$$ and seize whatever prey the heart long for$$$ and have no fear. Everything exists$$$ everything is true$$$ and the earth is only a little dust under our feet.
Men$$$ the enemy troops you can see are all that stands between us and the place we have for so long been determined to reach. We must find a way to eat them alive!
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
People often say what is right and do what is wrong; but nobody can be in the wrong if he is doing what is right.
For as they who use no bodily exercises are awkward and unwieldy in the actions of the body$$$ so they who exercise not their minds are incapable of the noble actions of the mind$$$ and have not courage enough to undertake anything worthy of praise$$$ nor command enough over themselves to abstain from things that are forbid.
Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.
One god there is$$$ in no way like mortal creatures either in bodily form or in the thought of his mind. The whole of him sees$$$ the whole of him thinks$$$ the whole of him hears. He stays always motionless in the same place; it is not fitting that he should move about now this way$$$ now that.