We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.

I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among the Greeks the conditions were unusually favourable for the development of the individual; not by any means owing to the goodness of the people, but because of the struggles of their evil instincts.With the help of favourable measures great individuals might be reared who would be both different from and higher than those who heretofore have owed their existence to mere chance. Here we may still be hopeful: in the rearing of exceptional men.

Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes.

The destiny of mankind is arranged for happy moments every life has such but not for happy times.

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men.

When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him.