Every man in creating the beautiful appearance of the dream worlds is a perfect artist.

Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon drop off.

Even truthfulness is but one means to knowledge, a ladder--but not the ladder.

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in which one does not at least deny himself some trifle is badly spent and a threat to the day following.

[Heraclitus had] the highest form of pride [stemming] from a certainty of belief in the truth as grasped by himself alone. He brings this form, by its excessive development, into a sublime pathos by involuntary identification of himself with his truth.

Man is the only animal that must be encouraged to live.