Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.
He who hates himself is not humble.
One cannot live without motives. I have no motives left, and I am living.
Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist-a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist-only when life has been defeated many times in its fight against depression.
One hardly saves a world without ruling it.
Discretion is deadly to genius; ruinous to talent.