Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.
We are franker towards others than towards ourselves.
Every power draws its ultimate consequences at every moment.
The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.
How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?
One should never know too precisely whom one has married