Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.

Men should learn to live with the same seriousness with which children play.

And like a wind shall I one day blow amongst them and with my spirit take away their soul's breath: thus my future wills it.

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.

In all institutions from which the cold wind of open criticism is excluded, an innocent corruption begins to grow like a mushroom - for example, in senates and learned societies

It is within your power to see that all you have experienced, trials, errors, faults, deceptions, passions, your love and your hope, shall be merged wholly in your aim.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.