The sense of inferiority inherent in the act of imitation breeds resentment. The impulse of the imitators is to overcome the model they imitate.

The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.

Men of thought seldom work well together, whereas between men of action there is usually an easy camaraderie.

Our quarrel with the world is an echo of the endless quarrel proceeding within us.

It is to escape the responsibility for failure that the weak so eagerly throw themselves into grandiose undertakings.

A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness.

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.