The people we keep standing in the anteroom of our favor either start fermenting or turn sour.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

The people we keep standing in the anteroom of our favor either start fermenting or turn sour.

... hitherto we have been permitted to seek beauty only in the morally good - a fact which sufficiently accounts for our having found so little of it and having had to seek about for imaginary beauties without backbone! - As surely as the wicked enjoy a hundred kinds of happiness of which the virtuous have no inkling, so too they possess a hundred kinds of beauty; and many of them have not yet been discovered.

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

He has drawn back, only in order to have enough room for his leap

Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.