When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life.

Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself.

Along the journey we commonly forget its goal. Almost every vocation is chosen and entered upon as a means to a purpose but is ultimately continued as a final purpose in itself. Forgetting our objectives is the most frequent stupidity in which we indulge ourselves.

Learning from one's enemies is the best way to love them, for it puts one into a grateful mood toward them.

If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good.

...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.

When we think of all the things we want to do with our other half the answer should be simple; we should want to do absolutely everything with them. We should want to experience everything, feel everything, see everything with no one but them by our sides. When we look back on our lives it's not the things we did do with them that we'll regret, it's the things we didn't do.