Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolong... - Friedrich Nietzsche

"I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage"

"I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you."

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

"It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better."

"Art is the proper task of life."