How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value.
One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam.
One must have all the virtues to sleep well. Shall I bear false witness? Shall I commit adultery? Shall I covet my neighbor's maid? All that would go ill with good sleep.
If you buy the why, the how is infinitely bearable
Immortal is the moment when I engendered the recurrence. For the sake of this moment I bear the recurrence.
But let me open up my heart to you completely, my friends: if there were gods, how could I bear not being a god! Hence, there areno gods. I drew this conclusion, to be sure--but now it draws me.
Can an ass be tragic?--To perish under a burden that one can neither bear nor cast off? The case of the philosopher.
He who bears injustice alone is terrible to behold.
However unchristian it may seem, I do not even bear any ill feeling towards myself.