He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations.

Ten times must you laugh during the day, and be cheerful; otherwise your stomach, the father of affliction, will disturb you in the night.

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell.

A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch.

I love all who are like heavy drops falling one by one out of the dark cloud that lowereth over man: they herald the coming of the lightning, and succumb as heralds.

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.

The most dangerous physicians are those born actors who imitate born physicians with a perfectly deceptive guile.