He who does not lie does not know what truth is.

Do I advise you to love the neighbor? I suggest rather to escape from the neighbor and to love those who are the farthest away from you. Higher than the love for the neighbor is the love for the man who is distant and has still to come.

Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what he suffered and why he now reposes in joy.

Anti-theses.- The most senile thing ever thought about man is contained in the celebrated saying 'the ego is always hateful'; the most childish is the even more celebrated 'love thy neighbor as thyself'. - In the former, knowledge of human nature has ceased, in the latter it has not yet even begun.

On the tree, Future, we build our nest; and in our solitude eagles shall bring us nourishment in their beaks!

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

That, however, is - mediocrity, though it be called moderation.