"Because men really respect only that which..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“A friend whose hopes we cannot satisfy is a friend we would rather have as an enemy.”

“I have exposed myself and am not ashamed to stand there naked. "Shame" is what we call the monster that attached itself to men when they aspired beyond the animals.”

“Whether a man hides his bad qualities and vices or confesses them openly, his vanity wants to gain an advantage by it in both cases: just note how subtly he distinguishes between those he will hide his bad qualities from and those he will face honestly and candidly.”

“I know, that since life is our most precious gift, and as far as we can be absolutely certain, it's given to us to live but once, let us so live we will not regret years of useless virtue, and inertia, and timidity, and ignorance, and in our last moments we can say: 'All my life, all my conscious energies, have been dedicated to the most noble cause in the world, the liberation of the human mind and spirit - beginning with my own'.”

“The fame of the rich man dies with him; the fame of the treasure, and not of the man who possessed it, remains.”

“Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.”

“Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.”

“Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.”

“Time will discover everything to posterity; it is a babbler, and speaks even when no question is put.”