Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the conviction that there is something better, even against one's own inclination.

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others

As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth.

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

We are not all equal, nor can we be so.