In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him.

Mozart, the last chord of a centuries-old great European taste.

To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory.

That grand drama in a hundred acts, which is reserved for the next two centuries of Europe-the most terrible, most questionable and perhaps also the most hopeful of all dramas.

Of all evil I deem you capable: therefore I want the good from you.

The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.

Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?