Love ought not to make requests,” she said, “but shouldn’t make demands, either. Love must have the strength to reach certainty for itself. Then it no longer undergoes the power of attraction, but exerts it. Demian
In solitude there grows what anyone brings into it, the inner beast too. Therefore solitude is inadvisable to many. Thus Spoke Zarathustra
In order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
A man never speaks of himself without losing something. What he says in his disfavor is always believed, but when he commends himself, he arouses mistrust. Essays
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