Those who are failures from the start, downtrodden, crushed -- it is they, the weakest, who must undermine life among men, who call into question and poison most dangerously our trust in life, in man, and in ourselves.

The love of power is the demon of mankind.

I change too quickly: my today refutes my yesterday. When I ascend I often jump over steps, and no step forgives me that.

It is absolutely impossible for a subject to see or have insight into something while leaving itself out of the picture, so impossible that knowing and being are the most opposite of all spheres.

It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts.

The love of indulgence is rooted in the depths of a man's heart. His soul would prefer to share the excessive and unrestrained; but his soul cannot love.

The child as a monument to the passion of two people; the will to oneness in two.