Astrology presupposes that the heavenly bodies are regulated in their movements in harmony with the destiny of mortals: the moral man presupposes that that which concerns himself most nearly must also be the heart and soul of things.

Whenever the strength of a belief strongly steps into the foreground, we must infer a certain weakness of demonstrability and the improbability of that belief.

In war personal revenge maintains its silence.

It was the sick and decaying who despised the body and earth and invented the heavenly realm and the redemptive drops of blood: but they took even these sweet and gloomy poisons from body and earth. They wanted to escape their own misery, and the stars were too far for them.

What doesn't kill you, only makes you stronger

Yet where is your inner value when you no longer know what it is to breathe freely; when you no longer have freedom over your own selves

Some rule out of a lust for ruling; others, so as not to be ruled:Mto these it is merely the lesser of two evils.