The will to overcome a passion is in the end merely the will of another or several other passions

Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.

If one considers what need people have of an external regulation to constrain and steady them, how compulsion, slavery in a higher sense, is the sole and final condition under which the person of weaker will can prosper; then one understands the nature of conviction, "faith."

What is happiness? The feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome

Nobody talks more passionately of his rights than he who, in the depths of his soul, is doubtful about them.

Out of passions grow opinions; mental sloth lets these rigidify into convictions