"One must cease letting oneself be eaten..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“The criminal type is the type of the strong human being under unfavorable circumstances: a strong human being made sick.”

“People who feel insecure in social situations never miss a chance to exhibit their dominance over close, submissive friends, whomthey put down publicly, in front of everyone--by teasing, for example.”

“The discipline of suffering, of great suffering- do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so far? That tension of the soul in unhappiness which cultivates its strength, its shudders face to face with great ruin, its inventiveness and courage in enduring, preserving, interpreting, and exploiting suffering, and whatever has been granted to it of profundity, secret, mask, spirit, cunning, greatness- was it not granted to it through suffering, through the discipline of great suffering?”

“We are and we know we are and we love to be it and know it.”

“I do love nothing in the world so well as you- is not that strange?”

“The promise, made when I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love.”

“Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.”

“And what fastens attention, in the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two parties? Perhaps we never saw them before, and never shall meet them again. But we see them exchange a glance, or betray a deep emotion, and we are no longer strangers. We understand them, and take the warmest interest in the development of the romance. All mankind love a lover.”

“If your friend has displeased you, you shall not sit down to consider it, for he has already lost all memory of the passage, and has doubled his power to serve you, and, ere you can rise up again, will burden you with blessings.”