The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

Some men are born posthumously.

One should part from life as Odysseus parted from Nausicaa-blessing it rather than in love with it.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

When a man has just been greatly honored and has eaten a little he is the most generous.

Look not into the sun! Even the moon is too bright for your nocturnal eyes!

What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.