I am a prelude to better players, O my brothers! An example! Follow my example!
Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.
There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.
Whatever does not kill me makes me stronger.
Children from humble families must be taught how to command just as other children must be taught how to obey.
There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated