It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves.

A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow.

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets successfully through many a bad night.

Christianity in particular should be dubbed a great treasure-chamber of ingenious consolations, such a store of refreshing, soothing, deadening drugs has it accumulated within itself.

What separates two people most profoundly is a different sense and degree of cleanliness.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

The strongest have their moments of fatigue.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.