Don't think that your truth could be found by someone else.

The belief that becomes truth for me... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action.

I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.

Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.

Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.

If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.

How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.