A physician who treated me as a nervous case for a while said in the end "No! It is not a matter of your nerves; it is I who am nervous".

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

It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn man into so much art, surface, play of colors, graciousness that his sight no longer makes one suffer.---

Marriages that made out of love (so-called "love-matches") have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother.

It quite often happens that the old man is subject to the delusion of a great moral renewal and rebirth, and from this experience he passes judgments on the work and course of his life, as if he had only now become clear-sighted; and yet the inspiration behind this feeling of well-being and these confident judgements is not wisdom, but weariness .

If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good.

What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.