What was a lie in the father becomes a conviction in the son.

One must first be firmly set in oneself, one must stand securely on one's own two legs otherwise one cannot love at all.

Love and hatred are not blind, but are blinded by the fire they bear within themselves.

The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.

The higher culture an individual attains, the less field there is left for mockery and scorn.

After all, what would be "beautiful" if the contradiction had not first become conscious of itself, if the ugly had not first said to itself: "I am ugly"?.

Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying--that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire.