The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.

Every master has but one disciple, and that one becomes unfaithful to him, for he too is destined for master-ship.

Phlegmatic natures can be inspired to enthusiasm only by being made into fanatics.

In affability there is no hatred of men, but for that very reason there is all too much contempt for men.

We are praised or blamed, as the one or the other may be expedient, for displaying to advantage our power of discernment.

Heaping glowing coals on another person's head is usually misunderstood and comes to nothing because the other person knows just as well that he is in the right and has also given some thought on his own part to heaping coals.

There is such a thing as a hatred of lies and dissimulation, which is the outcome of a delicate sense of humor; there is also the selfsame hatred but as the result of cowardice, in so far as falsehood is forbidden by Divine law. Too cowardly to lie.