This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many.

I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea.

He who knows himself to be profound endeavors to be clear; he who would like to appear profound to the crowd endeavors to be obscure.

The definition of morality: Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life - and being successful.

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.

Discontent is the seed of ethics.