To discover he is loved in return ought really to disenchant the lover with the beloved.

But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Distrust all those who talk much of their justice!

What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.

We must beware of one who is in a passion against us as of one who has once sought our life; for the fact that we still live is due to the absence of power to kill, - if looks could kill, we should have been dead long ago.

No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Immortal is the moment when I engendered the recurrence. For the sake of this moment I bear the recurrence.

Without the perpetual counterfeiting of the universe by number, man could not continue to live