Pity is extolled as the virtue of prostitutes.

When I was twelve years old I thought up an odd trinity: namely, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Devil. My inference wasthat God, in contemplating himself, created the second person of the godhead; but that, in order to be able to contemplate himself, he had to contemplate, and thus to create, his opposite.--With this I began to do philosophy.

Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.

Fall down seven times, stand up eight. - Chinese proverbWithout music, life would be a mistake.

Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of impropriety onto our own side of the scale.

He who denies himself much in great matters will readily indulge himself in small things.

Whoever is related to me in the height of his aspirations will experience veritable ecstasies of learning; for I come from heights that no bird ever reached in its flight, I know abysses into which no foot ever strayed.