He who has always spared himself much will in the end become sickly of so much consideration. Praised be what hardens!

Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps.

When we think of all the things we want to do with our other half the answer should be simple; we should want to do absolutely everything with them. We should want to experience everything, feel everything, see everything with no one but them by our sides. When we look back on our lives it's not the things we did do with them that we'll regret, it's the things we didn't do.

People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see.

The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.

In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage.

Loving and perishing: it's been a rhyme all these eternities. The will to love: that is, also being willing to die.