Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it; it is the future that makes laws for our today.

Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed!

I am a prelude to better players, O my brothers! An example! Follow my example!

It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention.

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves.

...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.