With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one.
What seems different in yourself; that’s the rare thing you possess. The one thing that gives each of us his worth, and that’s just what we try to suppress. And we claim to love life.
Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.
Man’s first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.
Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.
Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you’re being miserable. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man.
The itch is a mean, unconfessable, ridiculous malady; one can pity someone who is suffering ; someone who wants to scratch himself makes one laugh.
I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.
Nothing blocks happiness like happiness remembered.
There are admirable potentialities in every human being.
Every perfect action is accompanied by pleasure. By that you can tell what you ought to do.
Do not scorn little victories.
It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars.
An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world; to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value.
Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.
The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love.
The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.
Pay attention only to the form; emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling place always finds an inhabitant.
The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.