One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam.

What we do in dreams we also do when we are awake: we invent and fabricate the person with whom we associate - and immediately forget we have done so.

Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the law could not afterwards be reinstated and this fact was accepted, the predicate gradually changed; - history treats almost exclusively of these bad men who subsequently became good men!

Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing.

Inexperienced girls flatter themselves with the notion that it is in their power to make a man happy.

Good manners disappear in proportion as the influence of a Court and an exclusive aristocracy lessens; this decrease can be plainly observed from decade to decade by those who have an eye for public behavior, which grows visibly.

[Heraclitus had] a regal air of certainty.