The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved.

I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.

One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.

A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.

Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.

The maturity of man—that means, to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play

A soul that knows it is loved but does not itself love betrays its sediment: what is at bottom comes up."―Epigrams and Interludes, Section 79

When we have to change an opinion about any one, we charge heavily to his account the inconvenience he thereby causes us.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

Without a goal [maneuvering is] aimless. You might be a master tactician, but you'll have no sense of strategy.

Happy is the man who can brush aside the offending remarks of another and go on his way.

It is sweet and honorable to die for your country.

If the climate were a bank, they would already have saved it.

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

- 'Music opens your soul, makes you ready.' - 'Ready for what?' - He smiles big. 'Exactly.

Human beings have an instinct for freedom.

Never complain about growing old... Some never have the privilege.

Style is a celebratory expression of your life force. You must approach it with a sense of joie de vivre.

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.