The great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily.

Quidquid luce fuit tenebris agit: but also the other way around. What we experience in dreams, so long as we experience it frequently, is in the end just as much a part of the total economy of our soul as anything we "really" experience: because of it we are richer or poorer, are sensitive to one need more or less, and are eventually guided a little by our dream-habits in broad daylight and even in the most cheerful moments occupying our waking spirit.

the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls

It is our taste that decides against Christianity now, no longer our reasons.

It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong.

I am really very, very tired of everything - more than tired.

We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.