Deep is the well of truth and long does it take to know what has fallen into its depths.

Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes along with superficial knowledge.

The strongest have their moments of fatigue.

Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell.

A change of values - that means, a change of the creators of values. He who has to be a creator always has to destroy.