Let old ones go. Dont be a memory-monger! Once you were young──now you are even younger.

What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.

Intoxicating joy is it for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, did the world once seem to me.

Follow in the footsteps of your fathers' virtue! How could you hope to climb high unless your fathers' will climbs with you?

Everyone needs a sense of shame, but no one needs to feel ashamed.

Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we cannot escape.

The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another.