“Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.”

“Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou wilt live again!”

“Intoxicating joy it is for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, the world once seemed to me.”

“All great artists and thinkers are great workers.”

“The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.”

“The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.”

“What, then, is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms – in short, a sum of human relations, which have been enhanced, transposed, and embellished poetically and rhetorically, and which after long use seem firm, canonical, and obligatory to a people: truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are; metaphors which are worn out and without sensuous power; coins which have lost their pictures and now matter only as metal, no longer as coins.”