The only truths which are universal are those gross enough to be thought so.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Whatever we succeed in doing is a transformation of something we have failed to do. Thus, when we fail, it is only because we have given up.
Whoever wants to accomplish great things must devote to a lot of profound thought to details.
[Beauty is] that which makes us despair.
We are wont to condemn self-love; but what we really mean to condemn is contrary to self-love. It is that mixture of selfishness and self-hate that permanently pursues us, that prevents us from loving others, and that prohibits us from losing ourselves.