There will be but few people who, when at a loss for topics of conversation, will not reveal the more secret affairs of their friends.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

The most fatal seductive lie that has yet existed

There is one thing one has to have either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.

Conversation with a friend will only bear good fruit of knowledge when both think only of the matter under consideration and forget that they are friends.

No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.

The man who does not wish to be one of the mass only needs to cease to be easy on himself.