And so, onwards... along a path of wisdom, with a hearty tread, a hearty confidence.. however you may be, be your own source of experience. Throw off your discontent about your nature. Forgive yourself your own self. You have it in your power to merge everything you have lived through- false starts, errors, delusions, passions, your loves and your hopes- into your goal, with nothing left over.

The reason adultery is immoral is that it might lead to marriage.

People to whom their daily life appears too empty and monotonous easily grow religious; this is comprehensible and excusable, only they have no right to demand religious sentiments from those whose daily life is not empty and monotonous.

Curiosity creeps into the houses of the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity.

Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

Was that life? Well then, once more!