In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

How much disgruntled heaviness, lameness, dampness, how much beer is there in the German intelligence.

The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate.

Just as bones, tissues, intestines, and blood vessels are enclosed in a skin that makes it possible to bear the sight of a human being, so the agitations and passions of the soul are wrapped up in vanity: it is the soul's skin.

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.