Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.

When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in which one does not at least deny himself some trifle is badly spent and a threat to the day following.

Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing.

You are treading the path to your greatness: no one shall follow you here! Your passage has effaced the path behind you, and above that path stands written: Impossibility.

Freedom of opinion is like health; both are individual, and no good general conception can be set up of either of them.

One lives for the day, one lives very fast, one lives very irresponsibly: precisely this is called "freedom."

Some rule out of a lust for ruling; others, so as not to be ruled:Mto these it is merely the lesser of two evils.