Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak are extinguished by it.

One day soon you will meet a man, and he will rise like a phoenix from the ashes, and it is my greatest hope that he will not give you syphilis.

Loving and perishing: it's been a rhyme all these eternities. The will to love: that is, also being willing to die.

If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved

Giving style” to one’s character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason and even weakness delights the eye.

one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.

All mankind is divided, as it was at all times and is still, into slaves and freemen.