Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.

All our wanting comes from needs, thus we continiously suffer. The intellect teaches free will, free from suffering.

Every hero is a Samson. The strong man succumbs to the intrigues of the weak and the many; and if in the end he loses all patience he crushes both them and himself.

Apart from man, no being wonders at its own experience.

You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

The law of simplicity and naïveté applies to all fine art, for it is compatible with what is most sublime.