Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones but by extreme positions of the opposite kind.

I love the great despisers because they are the great adorers.

A friend whose hopes we cannot satisfy is a friend we would rather have as an enemy.

He who is usually self-sufficient becomes exceptionally vain and keenly alive to fame and praise when he is physically ill. The more he loses himself the more he has to endeavor to regain his position by means of the opinion of others.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Man, full of emptiness and torn apart with homesickness for the desert has had to create from within himself an adventure, a torture-chamber, an unsafe and hazardous wilderness- this fool, this prisoner consumed with longing and despair, became the inventor of 'bad conscience'.

There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties.