Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once!

To get into just those situations where sham virtues will not suffice, but rather where, as with the ropedancer on his rope, one either falls or stands--or gets down.

That which needs to be proved cannot be worth much.

I feel all those human beings to be pernicious who can no longer oppose what they love: they thereby ruin the best things and people.

Foolish is my happiness, and foolish things will it speak: it is still too young—so have patience with it!

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.

Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?