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.
He who bears injustice alone is terrible to behold.
However unchristian it may seem, I do not even bear any ill feeling towards myself.
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.
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.