Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell.

The will to overcome an emotion, is ultimately only the will of another, or of several other, emotions.

Like the creatures of the forest and the sea, I love To lose myself for a while.

At heart I am a warrior.

Not joy is the mother of dissipation, but joylessness.

Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet at the same time surpass the one they imitate-which human beings love to do.

At times, our strengths propel us so far forward we can no longer endure our weaknesses and perish from them.