But each person is not only himself, he is also the unique, very special point, important and noteworthy in every instance, where the phenomena of the world meet, once only and never again in the same way. Demian
Of pleasures, those which occur most rarely give the most delight. Fragment
Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy; it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more apt he is to attach himself to it. Journals
You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself. Enchiridion
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