Having A Talent Is Not Enough: One

The Best Belongs To Me And Mine; And If We Are Not Given It, We Take It: The Best Food, The Purest Sky, The Most Robust Thoughts, The Fairest Women!

All Idealists Imagine That The Causes They Serve Are Fundamentally Better Than Any Other Causes In The World, And They Refuse To Believe That If Their Cause Is To Flourish At All It Requires Precisely The Same Foul-smelling Manure That Is Necessary To All Other Human Undertakings.

Whatever May Be Your Desire To Accomplish Great Deeds, The Deep Silence Of Pregnancy Never Comes To You! The Event Of The Day Sweeps You Along Like Straws Before The Wind Whilst Ye Lie Under The Illusion That Ye Are Chasing The Event,-poor Fellows! If A Man Wishes To Act The Hero On The Stage He Must Not Think Of Forming Part Of The Chorus; He Should Not Even Know How The Chorus Is Made Up.

We Must Understand How To Hide In Darkness In Order To Escape The Gnat-swarms Of Utterly Annoying Admirers.

All Human Life Is Sunk Deep In Untruth; The Individual Cannot Pull It Out Of This Well Without Growing Profoundly Annoyed With His Entire Past, Without Finding His Present Motives (like Honor) Senseless, And Without Opposing Scorn And Disdain To The Passions That Urge One On To The Future And To The Happiness In It.