Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.

Credit is a young man's capital.

Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.

We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.

He wants to enslave you.' 'I shudder at the thought of being free.

It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it