Hold a true friend with both your hands.

The woman and the genius do not work. Up to now, woman has been mankind's supreme luxury. In all those moments when we do our best, we do not work. Work is merely a means to these moments.

One must know how to conserve oneself- the best test of independence.

Heraclitus was an opponent of all democratic parties.

Quidquid luce fuit tenebris agit: but also the other way around. What we experience in dreams, so long as we experience it frequently, is in the end just as much a part of the total economy of our soul as anything we "really" experience: because of it we are richer or poorer, are sensitive to one need more or less, and are eventually guided a little by our dream-habits in broad daylight and even in the most cheerful moments occupying our waking spirit.

It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.