Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image.

Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak are extinguished by it.

There was at all events one advantage in the choice of this day to my birth; my birthday throughout the whole of my childhood was a day of public rejoicing.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself.

Generally speaking, the greater a woman's beauty, the greater her modesty.

Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator.