“For others do I wait...for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come.”

“More honestly and purely speaks the healthy body, perfect and square-built; and it speaks of the meaning of the earth.-”

“And must I not conceal myself like one who has swallowed gold- lest my soul should be ripped up?”

“I attack only things that are triumphant — if necessary, I wait until they become triumphant.”

“A small company is more welcome to me than a bad one: but they must come and go at the right time. So does it accord with good sleep.”

“The one necessary thing.— A person must have one or the other. Either a cheerful disposition by nature, or a disposition made cheerful by art and knowledge.”

“Must one first batter their ears, that they may learn to hear with their eyes? Must one clatter like kettledrums and penitential preachers? Or do they only believe the stammerer?”