One should part from life as Odysseus parted from Nausicaa-blessing it rather than in love with it.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

People who, out of an inborn moderation, leave every glass standing only half-emptied refuse to admit that everything in the world has its sediments and dregs.

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

In laughter all that is evil comes together, but is pronounced holy and absolved by its own bliss.

All great artists and thinkers are great workers.

At the beginning of a marriage ask yourself whether this woman will be interesting to talk to from now until old age. Everything else in marriage is transitory: most of the time is spent in conversation.