The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

One unconsciously takes it for granted that doer and sufferer think and feel alike, and according to this supposition we measure the guilt of the one by the pain of the other.

When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly.

When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous.

Our sense of the tragic waxes and wanes with our sensuality.

No man ever wrote more eloquently and luminously [than Heraclitus].

Young people love what is interesting and odd, no matter how true or false it is. More mature minds love what is interesting and odd about truth. Fully mature intellects, finally, love truth, even when it appears plain and simple, boring to the ordinary person; for they have noticed that truth tends to reveal its highest wisdom in the guise of simplicity.