Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

The great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily.

Impoliteness is frequently the sign of an awkward modesty that loses its head when surprised and hopes to conceal this with rudeness.

Rendering oneself unarmed when one had been the best-armed, out of a height of feeling-that is the means to real peace, which must always rest on a peace of mind.

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

I am really very, very tired of everything - more than tired.

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.