"Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency." — Franz Kafka

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things

Source: Walden (1854)

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self

Source: Gleanings Among the Sheaves, Humility (1869)

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power

Franz Kafka Quote