Love ever your neighbour as yourselves - but first be such as love themselves.

Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator.

I enquire now as to the genesis of a philologist and assert the following: 1. A young man cannot possibly know what Greeks and Romans are. 2. He does not know whether he is suited for finding out about them.

Certitude drives people mad.

Great intellects are skeptical.

Did you ever say yes to a pleasure? oh my friends, then you also said yes to all pain. all things are linked, entwined, in love with one another.

He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.