Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

Fall down seven times, stand up eight. - Chinese proverbWithout music, life would be a mistake.

Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men.

We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we would wish them to be.

The surest sign of the estrangement of the opinions of two persons is when they both say something ironical to each other and neither of them feels the irony.

I love him who loveth his virtue: for virtue is the will to down-going, and an arrow of longing.

Why is it that wellnesses are not as contagious as illnesses--generally speaking, but also especially regarding taste? Or are there epidemics of health?