God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.
The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
Not everyone can be an orphan.
Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.
Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.
The abominable effort to take one's sins with one to paradise.
So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.
Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
Man cannot discover new oceans (high sea) unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.'
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?
Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
Dare to be yourself.
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of shore for a very long time.
One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.
A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.
