Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps.

Men are even lazier than they are timorous, and what they fear most is the troubles with which any unconditional honesty and nudity would burden them.

Art depends upon the inexactitude of sight.

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

For as long as they praise you, never forget that it is not yet your own path that you walk, but another person's.

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones but by extreme positions of the opposite kind.

Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of impropriety onto our own side of the scale.