By means of music the very passions, enjoy themselves.

Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate.

A man should not play the coward to his deeds. He should not repudiate them once he has performed them. Pangs of conscience are indecent.

The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a wheel rolling on its own, a prime movement, a sacred Yes.

Every master has but one disciple, and that one becomes unfaithful to him, for he too is destined for master-ship.