If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism.

A life without music is an error.

[Heraclitus had] the highest form of pride [stemming] from a certainty of belief in the truth as grasped by himself alone. He brings this form, by its excessive development, into a sublime pathos by involuntary identification of himself with his truth.

I welcome all the signs indicating that a more manly and warlike age is commencing, which will, above all, bring heroism again into honour!

And many such good inventions are there, that they are like woman's breasts: useful at the same time, and pleasant.

I am driven out of fatherlands and motherlands. Thus I now love only my children's land, yet undiscovered, in the farthest sea; for this I bid my sails search and search.

However closely people are attached to one another, their mutual horizon nonetheless includes all four compass directions, and nowand again they notice it.