Pity makes suffering contagious.

Why is it that wellnesses are not as contagious as illnesses--generally speaking, but also especially regarding taste? Or are there epidemics of health?

That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good - the atavism of an old ideal.

The higher you ascend, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. But most of all they hate those who fly.

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

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

"This - is now my way - where is yours"? Thus did I answer those who asked me "the way". For the way - it does not exist!