Mastery has been achieved when one neither makes a mistake nor hesitates in the performance.

Everyone nowadays lives through too much and thinks through too little: they have a ravenous appetite and colic at the same time so that they keep getting thinner and thinner no matter how much they eat.--Whoever says nowadays, "I have not experienced anything"--is a simpleton.

What does it matter whether I am shown to be right! I am right too much!--And he who laughs best today will also laugh last.

Love ever your neighbour as yourselves - but first be such as love themselves.

To explore the whole sphere of the modern soul, to have sat in every nook- my ambition, my torture, and my happiness

I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom.

He who is usually self-sufficient becomes exceptionally vain and keenly alive to fame and praise when he is physically ill. The more he loses himself the more he has to endeavor to regain his position by means of the opinion of others.