Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is over-looked as something new.

But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one must also have the greatest possible amount of the other, that he who wants to experience the "heavenly high jubilation," must also be ready to be "sorrowful unto death"?

I have not the capability to give you my loyalty, nor do I have the vanity to appear as if I did.

From which stars have we fallen to meet each other here?

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved.

Out of love, women become entirely what it is that they are in the imaginations of the men who love them.