Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

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?

If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good.

We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of life may become a habit and therefore a pleasure.

You must climb above yourself-up and beyond, until you have even your stars under you.

When gods die, they always die many sorts of death.