To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

I have given a name to my pain, and call it "dog".

You I advise not to work, but to fight. You I advise not to peace, but to victory. Let your work be a fight, let your peace be a victory!

One who has given up any hope of winning a fight or has clearly lost it wants his style in fighting to be admired all the more.

Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach.

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.