What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
One is led astray alike by sympathy and coldness, by praise and by blame
Nature has neither core nor skin: sheโs both at once outside and in.
He is happy as well as great who needs neither to obey nor to command in order to be something.
It is so hard that one cannot really have confidence in doctors and yet cannot do without them.
Art is in itself noble; that is why the artist has no fear of what is common. This, indeed, is already ennobled when he takes it up.