“To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.”

“There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.”

“The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambitions.”

“Nothing but courage can guide life.”

“He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.”

“If anyone accuses me of contradicting myself I reply: Because I have been wrong once or oftener I do not aspire to be always wrong.”

“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.”

“If only [people] understood that every thought is both false and true! False by one-sidenedness resulting from man's inability to embrace the whole truth, and true as an expression of one fact of h...”

“Ihr redet, wenn ihr aufhrt mit euren Gedanken in Frieden zu sein.”