I hate you most because you attract, but are not strong enough to pull me to you.

Love brings to light the lofty and hidden characteristics of the lover--what is rare and exceptional in him: to that extent it caneasily be deceptive with respect to what is normal in him.

Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.

Precisely this is godliness--that there are gods, but no God.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

You have not yet suffered enough! For you suffer only from yourselves, you have not yet suffered from man.

If we affirm one moment, we thus affirm not only ourselves but all existence. For nothing is self-sufficient, neither in us ourselves nor in things; and if our soul has trembled with happiness and sounded like a harp string just once, all eternity was needed to produce this one event - and in this single moment of affirmation all eternity was called good, redeemed, justified, and affirmed.