After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself and everyone else up.

Out of love, women become entirely what it is that they are in the imaginations of the men who love them.

Whether we immoralists do any harm to virtue?-Just as little as anarchists do to princes. It is only because they have been shot at that they once again sit securely on their thrones. Moral: we must shoot at morals.

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.

He who is not a bird should not build his nest over abysses.