Love is more afraid of change than destruction.

He who denies his own vanity usually possesses it in so brutal a form that he instinctively shuts his eyes to avoid the necessity of despising himself.

When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness.

If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy.

"Body am I, and soul" - so saith the child. And why should one not speak like children?

The most unambiguous sign that a person holds men in low esteem is this, that he either acknowledges them merely as means to his ends or does not acknowledge them at all.

There is a stupid humility that is quite common and when a person is afflicted with it, he is once and for all disqualified for being a disciple of knowledge.