All understanding begins in wonder!

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

How can one learn to know oneself? Never by introspection, rather by action.

Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.

You can put up with everything in this world except not with a long stretch of beautiful days.

He who can not learn to love must flatter.

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.