Man is the only animal that must be encouraged to live.

Sleep is no mean art.

THE SUFFERING OF GENIUS AND ITS VALUE. The artistic genius desires to give pleasure, but if his mind is on a very high plane he does not easily find anyone to share his pleasure; he offers entertainment but nobody accepts it. That gives him, in certain circumstances, a comically touching pathos; for he has no right to force pleasure on men. He pipes, but none will dance: can that be tragic?

You have not yet suffered enough! For you suffer only from yourselves, you have not yet suffered from man.

As far as Germany extends it ruins culture.

I love all who are like heavy drops falling one by one out of the dark cloud that lowereth over man: they herald the coming of the lightning, and succumb as heralds.

One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear.