Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.

One lives but once in the world.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.

I am the spirit that negates. And rightly so, for all that comes to be Deserves to perish wretchedly; 'Twere better nothing would begin. Thus everything that that your terms, sin, Destruction, evil represent— That is my proper element.