What an age experiences as evil is usually an untimely reverberation echoing what was previously experienced as good--the atavismof an older ideal.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

... art approaches as a saving sorceress, expert at healing. She alone knows how to turn these nauseous thoughts about the horror or absurdity of existence into notions with which one can live.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Whoever thinks much and to good purpose easily forgets his own experiences, but not the thoughts which these experiences have called forth.

A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.

So live your life of obedience and of war! What matter about long life! What warrior wisheth to be spared!