The lack of closeness among friends is a fault that cannot be reprimanded without becoming incurable.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Did you ever say yes to a pleasure? oh my friends, then you also said yes to all pain. all things are linked, entwined, in love with one another.

In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs

Read from a distant star, the majuscule script of our earthly existence would perhaps lead to the conclusion that the earth was the distinctively ascetic planet, a nook of disgruntled, arrogant creatures filled with a profound disgust with themselves, at the earth, at all life, who inflict as much pain on themselves as they possibly can out of pleasure in inflicting pain which is probably their only pleasure.

Worldly Wisdom Do not stay in the field! Nor climb out of sight. The best view of the world Is from a medium height.

The golden age, when rambunctious spirits were regarded as the source of evil.