Nothing will ever be gained for nothing. If we labour, we shall have our own opinion as well.
Nothing is more seductive for man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering.
My sweetheart! When I think of you, it's as if I'm holding some healing balm to my sick soul, and although i suffer for you, i find that even suffering for you is easy.
Man likes to make roads and to create, that is a fact beyond dispute. But why has he such a passionate love for destruction and chaos also?
Love is such a priceless treasure that you can buy the whole world with it, and redeem not only your own but other people's sins. Go, and do not be afraid.
Life is, and death is not at all
Let me be sinful before everyone, but so that everyone will forgive me, and that is paradise. Am I not in paradise now?
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experiences when one is young. The sky was so bright, and there were so many stars that, gazing upward, one couldn't help wondering how so many whi...
Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely.
In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality.
If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
I am a sick man.... I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I believe my liver is diseased. However, I know nothing at all about my disease, and do not know for certain what ails me. I don’t co...
However, do you know what? I am convinced that fellows like me who live in dark cellars must be kept under restraint. They may be able to live in their dark cellars for forty years and never open thei...
He is a man of intelligence, but to act sensibly, intelligence is not enough.
He doesn't love anyone, and maybe he never will.
God preserve you, my dear boy, from ever asking forgiveness for a fault from a woman you love. From one you love especially, however greatly you may have been in fault. For a woman--devil only knows w...
First you have to buy powder, pistol powder, not the damp, and not as coarse as for a cannon. Then you have to put the powder in first, and get some felt off a door. And then you have to put the bulle...
Fear of aesthetics is the first sign of powerlessness
Everything passes, only truth remains.
Every man looks out for himself, and he has the happiest life who manages to hoodwink himself best of all.