Once we have found ourselves, we must understand how from time to time to lose--and then to find--ourselves once again: assuming,that is, that we are thinkers. For a thinker it is a drawback to be bound to a single person all the time.

Rendering oneself unarmed when one had been the best-armed, out of a height of feeling-that is the means to real peace, which must always rest on a peace of mind.

The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth.

[Heraclitus had] a regal air of certainty.

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

He who humbles himself wants to be exalted.

The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.