The world is a work of art that gives birth to itself.

One can also be undignified and flattering toward a virtue.

The most unendurable thing, to be sure, the really terrible thing, would be a life without habits, a life which continually required improvisation.

Nobody can build the bridge for you to walk across the river of life, no one but you yourself alone. There are, to be sure, countless paths and bridges and demi-gods which would carry you across this river; but only at the cost of yourself; you would pawn yourself and lose. There is in the world only one way, on which nobody can go, except you: where does it lead? Do not ask, go along with it.

Only in war are you holy, and when you are robbers and cruel.

Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it.

One can lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace one nevertheless tells the truth.