In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many.

Whoever possesses abundant joy must be a good man: but he is probably not the cleverest man, although he achieves exactly what it is that the cleverest man strives with all his cleverness to achieve.

In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man.

Each word of Heraclitus expresses the pride and the majesty of truth, but of truth grasped in intuitions rather than attained by the rope ladder of logic.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

All signs of superhuman nature appear in man as illness or insanity.

Women want to serve, and this is where their happiness lies: but the free spirit does not want to be served, and this is where hishappiness lies.