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Generally speaking, the greater a woman's beauty, the greater her modesty.
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.
Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.
Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.
Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.
When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.
I believe I can even yet remember when I saw the stars for the first time.
The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper.
I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea.
I hate who steals my solitude, without really offer me in exchange company.
My abyss speaks, I have turned my ultimate depth inside out into the light.
It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.
A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.
We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.
The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.
Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.
Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.
One must separate from anything that forces one to repeat No again and again.
The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
Sing me a new song; the world is transfigured; all the Heavens are rejoicing.
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
We are so fond of being out among nature, because it has no opinions about us.
Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak are extinguished by it.
Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.
You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.
Every step forward is made at the cost of mental and physical pain to someone.
Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.
Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
You know a moment is important when it is making your mind go numb with beauty.
All isolation is wrong so say the herd. And long didst thou belong to the herd.
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Be careful who you choose as your enemy because that's who you become most like.
The greatest cure for love is still that time honoured medicine - love returned.
If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.
Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.
Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good.
Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs
But are there many honest people who will admit that it is pleasing to give pain?
I hate you most because you attract, but are not strong enough to pull me to you.
What convinces is not necessarily true-it is merely convincing: a note for asses.
Strength is the morality of the man who stands out from the rest, and it is mine.
One who is always deeply involved in what he is doing is above all embarrassment.
Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.