Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.

Your soul will be dead even before your body: fear nothing further.

You want to make him interested in you? Then pretend to be embarrassed in his presence-

Those you cannot teach to fly, teach to fall faster.

How poisonous, how crafty, how bad, does every long war make one, which cannot be waged openly by means of force!

The small force that it takes to launch a boat into the stream should not be confused with the force of the stream that carries it along: but this confusion appears in nearly all biographies.

There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation.