Mothers easily become jealous of their sons' friends when they are particularly successful. As a rule a mother loves herself in her son more than she does the son himself.

Pity is extolled as the virtue of prostitutes.

Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life: with its own torment it increases its own knowledge. Did you already know that?

Convictions are prisons.

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

The empty, the one, the unmoved, the full, satiation, wanting nothing--that would be my evil: in short, dreamless sleep.

The ordinary man is as courageous and invulnerable as a hero when he does not recognize any danger, when he has no eyes to see it.Conversely, the hero's only vulnerable spot is on his back, and so exactly where he has no eyes.