Nothing can be done about it: every master has but a single pupil--and he will not stay loyal to him--for he is also destined to become a master.

Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.

Only he who is man enough will release the woman in woman.

They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.

there they laugh: they do not understand me; I am not the mouth for these ears.

I change too quickly: my today refutes my yesterday. When I ascend I often jump over steps, and no step forgives me that.

This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence - even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!