The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.

Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.

The courage of all one really knows comes but late in life.

The strength required for the vision of the most powerful reality is not only compatible with the most powerful strength for action, for monstrous action, for crime - it even presupposes it.

I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.