The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.

Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.

The real genres: good and bad.

If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.

Even with limited intelligence, knowing oneself is not as difficult as some say, but to act according to what one has realized about oneself in real life is as difficult as practicing anything else, compared to theory.

When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental — far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns.

The most irascible person is most likely to become apathetic in dangerous situations.