All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.

We count the courtesies accorded us by unpopular people as offenses.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

To produce music is also in a sense to produce children.

Do I advise you to love the neighbor? I suggest rather to escape from the neighbor and to love those who are the farthest away from you. Higher than the love for the neighbor is the love for the man who is distant and has still to come.

He that writeth in blood and proverbs doth not want to be read, but learnt by heart.

There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable people, did not bring it in with them.