One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.

The scholar seeks the artist finds.

A work of art is an exaggeration.

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Oh would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas as the tree does its withered leaves!

What another would have done as well as you do not do it. What another would have said as well as you do not say it. What another would have written as well do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of shore for a very long time.

Long only for what you have.

Welcome everything that comes to you but do not long for anything else.

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

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.

To win one's joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.

In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.

Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.

Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.

In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.

Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.

What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.

Nothing is good for everyone but only relatively to some people.

We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.

It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.

Sadness is a state of sin.

Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.

Sadness is a state of sin.

Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.

Sadness is a state of sin.

Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.

Sadness is a state of sin.

Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.

Sadness is a state of sin.

Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.

Sadness is a state of sin.

Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.

Sadness is a state of sin.

Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.

Sadness is a state of sin.

Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.

It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.

Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

The world will be saved by one or two people.

It is now and in this world that we must live.

Through loyalty to the past our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.

In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.

Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.

Sadness is a state of sin.

If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.