The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. 'Behold , just now the world ... entire love. And woman must obey and find a depth for her surface. Surface is the disposition of woman: a mobile, stormy film over shallow water. Man's disposition, however, is deep; his river roars in subterranean caves: woman feels his strength but does not comprehend it.

A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.

Become who you are. Make what only you can make.

What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old pieties; and only what is old is good. The good men are in all ages those who dig the old thoughts, digging deep and getting them to bear fruit - the farmers of the spirit. But eventually all land is depleted, and the ploughshare of evil must come again and again.

Even the most honest writer lets slip a word too many when he wants to round off a period.

Is it not better to fall into the hands of a murderer, than into the dreams of a lustful woman?