The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.

In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage.

I love him who reserveth no share of spirit for himself, but wanteth to be wholly the spirit of his virtue: thus walketh he as spirit over the bridge.

To become wise you have to want to experience certain experiences, and so to run into their open jaws. This is very dangerous, tobe sure; many a "wise man" has been eaten up in doing so.

We should not talk about our friends: otherwise we will talk away the feeling of friendship.

Not their love of humanity, but the impotence of their love, prevents the Christians of today - burning us.

Sharp and mild, dull and keen, well known and strange, dirty and clean, where both the fool and wise are seen: All this am I, have ever been, - in me dove, snake and swine convene!