How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.

Oh great star! What would your happiness be if you did not have us to shine for?

Whatever does not kill me makes me stronger.

That the world is not the embodiment of an eternal rationality can be conclusively proved by the fact that the piece of the worldthat we know--I mean our human reason--is not so very rational. And if it is not eternally and completely wise and rational, then the rest of the world will not be either; here the conclusion a minori ad majus, a parte ad totum applies, and does so with decisive force.

I live in my own place - have never copied anyone even half, and at any master who lacks the grace - to laugh at himself - I laugh.

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man.