It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

In our interactions with people, a benevolent hypocrisy is frequently required--acting as though we do not see through the motivesof their actions.

Only he who is man enough will release the woman in woman.

New ways I go, a new speech comes to me; weary I grow, like all creators, of the old tongues. My spirit no longer wants to walk on worn soles.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death.

At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.