Without music, life would be a mistake.

The way to transmute your iron duty into gold in everyone's eyes is this: always deliver more than you promise.

The trodden worm curls up. This testifies to its caution. It thus reduces its chances of being trodden upon again. In the language of morality: Humility.

The best belongs to me and mine; and if we are not given it, we take it: the best food, the purest sky, the most robust thoughts, the fairest women!

Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to act with greater calmness than his tempestuous desires prior to the deed would lead one to expect.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

The wheel and the brake have different duties, but also one in common: to hurt one another.