The pure soul is a pure lie.

The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how the four cardinal virtues want us.

One who has a why can endure anyhow.

Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity-and finally liberty is bestowed by sleep.

We must repay goodness and wickedness: but why exactly to the person who has done us a good or a wicked turn?

I am one thing, my writings are another.

Industriousness and conscientiousness are often at odds, because industriousness wants to pick the still sour fruit from the tree,while conscientiousness lets it hang there too long, until it falls and bruises.