Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow,- He knows you not, ye heavenly Powers.

A noble soul alone can noble souls attract; And knows alone, as ye, to hold them.

People can only live with their equals, and not even with them; for in the long run they cannot tolerate that someone is their equal.

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

There is a politeness of the heart; this is closely allied to love.

One does not get to know that one exists until one rediscovers oneself in others.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.