It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot

With their virtues they want to scratch out the eyes of their enemies; and they elevate themselves only that they may lower others.

I do not know how to make a distinction between tears and music.

To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled -- because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'