Happiness is a fata morgana. the only way to not end up unhappy is to not long for happiness.

The sick woman especially: no one surpasses her in refinements for ruling, oppressing, tyrannising.

When we cannot stand certain people, we try to have suspicions about them.

As soon as we climb higher than those who had at one time admired us, we appear to them as though we have sunken and fallen down:for, in any event, they had at one time supposed that they were with us (even if it were through us) on the heights.

Some men have sighed over the abduction of their wives, but many more have sighed because no one wanted to abduct theirs.

Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.

To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts.