There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated

Yet where is your inner value when you no longer know what it is to breathe freely; when you no longer have freedom over your own selves

The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and a new wish over and over again.

The most unambiguous sign that a person holds men in low esteem is this, that he either acknowledges them merely as means to his ends or does not acknowledge them at all.

Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.

Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly.