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?

Sleep is no mean art.

If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism.

The condition that gives birth to a rule is not the same as the condition to which the rule gives birth.

Forgetting: that is a divine capacity. And whoever aspires to the heights and wants to fly must cast off much that is heavy and make himself light--I call it a divine capacity for lightness.

The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task.

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.