Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves? - Friedrich Nietzsche

Alienated from the present. There are great advantages in for once removing ourselves distinctly from our time and letting ourselves be driven from its shore back into the ocean of former world views. Looking at the coast from that perspective, we survey for the first time its entire shape, and when we near it again, we have the advantage of understanding it better on the whole than do those who have never left it.

With all great deceivers there is a noteworthy occurrence to which they owe their power. In the actual act of deception... they are overcome by belief in themselves. It is this which then speaks so miraculously and compellingly to those who surround them.

For man to be redeemed from revenge, that is for me the bridge to the highest hope, and a rainbow after long storms.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!