One does not hate as long as one has a low esteem of someone, but only when one esteems him as an equal or a superior. |
One does not know -- cannot know -- the best that is in one. |
One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive |
One hears but one does not seek; one takes -- one does not ask who gives; a thought flashes up like lightning, it comes of necessity and unfalteringly formed. |
One is not free to become a Christian. One must be sick enough for it. |
One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth. |
One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises that one makes |
One must learn to be a sponge if one wants to be loved by hearts that overflow. |
One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam. |
One must need to be strong, otherwise one will never become strong |
One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths. |
One must separate from anything that forces one to repeat No again and again |
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. |
One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk. |
One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed. |