Freedom of Will-that is the expression for the complex state of delight of the person exercising volition, who commands and at the same time identifies himself with the executor of the order-who, as such, enjoys also the triumph over obstacles, but thinks within himself that it was really his own will that overcame them. In this way the person exercising volition adds the feelings of delight of his successful executive instruments, the useful underwills or under-souls-indeed, our body is but a social structure composed of many souls-to his feelings of delight as commander.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

You want to make him interested in you? Then pretend to be embarrassed in his presence-

And let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! And let that wisdom be false to us that brought no laughter with it!

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

The same relation exists between merchant and pirate, who for a long period are one and the same person: where the one function appears to them inadvisable, they exercise the other.

When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him.