94. The maturity of man — that means, to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play.

95. To be ashamed of one’s immorality is a step on the ladder at the end of which one is ashamed also of one’s morality.

96. One should part from life as Ulysses parted from Nausicaa — blessing it rather than in love with it.

97. What? A great man? I always see merely the play-actor of his own ideal.

98. When one trains one’s conscience, it kisses one while it bites.

99. THE DISAPPOINTED ONE SPEAKS — ”I listened for the echo and I heard only praise.”

100. We all feign to ourselves that we are simpler