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

Heaping glowing coals on another person's head is usually misunderstood and comes to nothing because the other person knows just as well that he is in the right and has also given some thought on his own part to heaping coals.

Generally speaking, the greater a woman's beauty, the greater her modesty.

Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them.

The ordinary man is as courageous and invulnerable as a hero when he does not recognize any danger, when he has no eyes to see it.Conversely, the hero's only vulnerable spot is on his back, and so exactly where he has no eyes.

Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153

Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach.