People live for the morrow, because the day-after-to-morrow is doubtful.

That the world is a divine game and beyond good and evil:Min this the Vedanta philosophy and Heraclitus are my predecessors.

So long as the spectator has to figure out the meaning of this or that person, or the presuppositions of this or that conflict of inclinations and purposes, he cannot become completely absorbed in the activities and sufferings of the chief characters or feel breathless pity and fear.

Many die too late, and some die too early. Yet strangers soundeth the precept: "Die at the right time!"

Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly.

We are in the greatest danger of being run over when we have just gotten out of the way of a carriage.

We must understand how to hide in darkness in order to escape the gnat-swarms of utterly annoying admirers.