Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.
One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?
In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare.
Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.
He who has attained the freedom of reason to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth - and not even as a traveler towards a final goal, for there is no such thing. But he certainly wants to observe and keep his eyes open to whatever actually happens in the world; therefore he cannot attach his heart too firmly to anything individual; he must have in himself something wandering that takes pleasure in change and transitoriness.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.