Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing.

A person must have a good memory to keep the promises he has made. A person must have a strong imagination to be able to have pity. So closely is morality tied to the quality of the intellect.

Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.

One must first be firmly set in oneself, one must stand securely on one's own two legs otherwise one cannot love at all.

Stupidity in a woman is unfeminine.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

One is necessary, one is a piece of fate, one belongs to the whole, one is the whole - there exists nothing which could judge, measure, compare, condemn our being, for that would be to judge, measure, compare, condemn the whole...But nothing exists apart from the whole!