"One unconsciously takes it for granted that..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“The best way to give assistance to those who are deeply embarrassed and to calm them down is to praise them decisively.”

“Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you.”

“Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being.”

“If you yourself desire establishment, then help others to get establishment; if you yourself want success, then help others to attain success.”

“It easeth some, though none it ever cured, to think their dolour others have endured.”

“I used to let other people's struggles affect my happiness. If they weren't happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn't happy, I didn't want anyone around me to be happy.”

“Men hate those to whom they have to lie.”

“All through my boyhood I had a profound conviction that I was no good, that I was wasting my time, wrecking my talents, behaving with monstrous folly and wickedness and ingratitude-and all this, it seemed, was inescapable, because I lived among laws which were absolute, like the law of gravity, but which it was not possible for me to keep.”

“When we oppose the hidden conscience, it does us hurt. When we betray it, it judges us.”