The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.

Everything that is profound loves the mask: the profoundest things have a hatred even of figure and likeness.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.

The way to transmute your iron duty into gold in everyone's eyes is this: always deliver more than you promise.

A married philosopher belongs to comedy.

Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself.