Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.[Im Staat kann es keine Heroen mehr geben: diese kommen nur im ungebildeten Zustande vor.]
It’s chance and nuances that separate the hero from the villain. That’s how it’s always been. Righteousness is the virtue of the lazy and the visionless. Without lawbreakers and disobedience we would still be living in a feudal society.
In the face of pain there are no heroes.
In 200 years will people remember us as traitors or heros? That is the question we must ask.
I hate to read about low-class heroes and their down-to-earth concerns, the sort of thing the real world’s full of.[Je déteste les héros communs et les sentiments tempérés, comme il y en a dans la nature.]
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so.
And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
A susceptible child is capable of great hero worship, and a young mind can easily be obsessed by an idea which persists into adult life.
A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
