you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?

He who lives as children live - who does not struggle for his bread and does not believe that his actions possess any ultimate significance - remains childlike.

whatever is profound loves masks; what is most profound even hates image and parable.

If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good.

History belongs above all to the man...who needs models, teachers, comforters and cannot find them among his contemporaries.

I am a prelude to better players, O my brothers! An example! Follow my example!

And many such good inventions are there, that they are like woman's breasts: useful at the same time, and pleasant.