Whatever does not kill me makes me stronger.

Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms wants not to be learned but to be learned by heart.

Unresolved dissonances between the characters and dispositions of the parents continue to reverberate in the nature of the child and make up the history of its inner sufferings.

Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended.

Joy wants the eternity of all things, wants deep, wants deep eternity.

There was at all events one advantage in the choice of this day to my birth; my birthday throughout the whole of my childhood was a day of public rejoicing.

The love of power is the demon of mankind.