The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.

An experience teaches only the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.

A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.