When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which in no way correspond to our real thoughts.

Was aus Liebe getan wird, geschieht immer jenseits von Gut und Böse. (What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.)

But eternal liveliness is what counts: what does "eternal life" matter, or life at all?

Inexperienced girls flatter themselves with the notion that it is in their power to make a man happy.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what he suffered and why he now reposes in joy.

The same relation exists between merchant and pirate, who for a long period are one and the same person: where the one function appears to them inadvisable, they exercise the other.