A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves- and who want to go where I want to go.

We should turn our death into a celebration, even if only out of a malice towards life: towards the woman who wants to leave--us!

The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it.

When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him.

You may have enemies whom you hate, but not enemies whom you despise. You must be proud of your enemy: then the success of your enemy shall be your success too.

We are so fond of being out among nature, because it has no opinions about us.

Life without music is no life at all.