Unresolved dissonances between the characters and dispositions of the parents continue to reverberate in the nature of the child and make up the history of its inner sufferings.

No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.

We must understand how to hide in darkness in order to escape the gnat-swarms of utterly annoying admirers.

He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations.

And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

As soon as we climb higher than those who had at one time admired us, we appear to them as though we have sunken and fallen down:for, in any event, they had at one time supposed that they were with us (even if it were through us) on the heights.