Humility has the toughest hide.

God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment-but many other things ceased as well!

One who is unassuming in dealing with people exhibits his arrogance all the more strongly in dealing with things (city, state, society, age, mankind). That is his revenge.

Indeed, what forces us at all to suppose that there is an essential opposition of 'true' and 'false'? Is it not sufficient to assume degrees of apparentness and, as it were, lighter and darker shadows and shades of appearance- different 'values', to use the language of painters?

Can an ass be tragic?--To perish under a burden that one can neither bear nor cast off? The case of the philosopher.

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

Life without music is no life at all.