What we experience in dreams - assuming that we experience it often - belongs in the end just as much to the over-all economy of our soul as anything experienced "actually": we are richer or poorer on account of it.

What was a lie in the father becomes a conviction in the son.

Life is fountain of joy; but where the rabble also gather to drink, all wells are poisoned.

The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.

What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do.

It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts.

The relatives of a suicide hold it against him that out of consideration for their reputation he did not remain alive.