"What does your conscience say? — 'You..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea.”

“There's no defense against stupidity.”

“When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.”

“With a little more deliberation in the choice of their pursuits, all men would perhaps become essentially students and observers, for certainly their nature and destiny are interesting to all alike.”

“She wanted to be herself again, to recover all that she had been obliged to give up in half a century of servitude that had doubtless made her happy but which, once her husband was dead, did not leave her even the vestiges of her identity.”

“Inside any deep asking is the answering.”

“Every great man is a unique. The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow.”

“Our poets have sung of wine, the product of a foreign plant which commonly they never saw, as if our own plants had no juice in them more than the singers.”

“To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.”