The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death.

One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.

Success has always been the greatest liar - and the "work" itself is a success; the great statesman, the conqueror, the discoverer is disguised by his creations, often beyond recognition; the "work," whether of the artist or the philosopher, invents the man who has created it, who is supposed to have create it; "great men," as they are venerated, are subsequent pieces of wretched minor fiction

Pathetic attitudes are not in keeping with greatness

The sick are the greatest danger for the healthy; it is not from the strongest that harm comes to the strong, but from the weakest.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies