Quidquid luce fuit tenebris agit: but also the other way around. What we experience in dreams, so long as we experience it frequently, is in the end just as much a part of the total economy of our soul as anything we "really" experience: because of it we are richer or poorer, are sensitive to one need more or less, and are eventually guided a little by our dream-habits in broad daylight and even in the most cheerful moments occupying our waking spirit.

You want to make him interested in you? Then pretend to be embarrassed in his presence-

Children from humble families must be taught how to command just as other children must be taught how to obey.

The beast in us must be[78] wheedled: ethic is necessary, that we may not be torn to pieces.

We must repay goodness and wickedness: but why exactly to the person who has done us a good or a wicked turn?

Solitude makes us tougher towards ourselves and tenderer towards others. In both ways it improves our character.

People buy their necessities in shops and have to pay dearly for them because they have to assist in paying for what is also on sale there but only rarely finds purchasers: the luxury and amusement goods. So it is that luxury continually imposes a tax on the simple people who have to do without it.