Emotions and Feelings

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold?

When thou goest to woman take thy whip.

Belief in form but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

Sleeping is no mean art. For its sake one must stay awake all day.

Ascetic: one who makes a necessity of virtue.

When virtue has slept she will get up more refreshed.

One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man but for this to endure it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

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

Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you.

I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No where it is dangerous to say No.

Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

Women can form a friendship with a man very well but to preserve it a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.

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

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance one cannot fly into flying.

Either you reach a higher point today or you exercise your strength in order to be able to climb higher tomorrow.

Courage is the best slayer-courage which attacketh for in every attack there is the sound of triumph.