Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals.

Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don’t throw away the best of yourself.

We pay dearly for immortality: we die for it more than once during our lifetimes.

Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal.

Speaking is a beautiful folly; with that man dances over all things.

What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering

Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy.