The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it.

The relatives of a suicide hold it against him that out of consideration for their reputation he did not remain alive.

Every habit makes our hand more witty and our wit less handy.

The higher you ascend, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. But most of all they hate those who fly.

No victor believes in chance.

When I was twelve years old I thought up an odd trinity: namely, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Devil. My inference wasthat God, in contemplating himself, created the second person of the godhead; but that, in order to be able to contemplate himself, he had to contemplate, and thus to create, his opposite.--With this I began to do philosophy.

Whoever despises himself still esteems the despiser within himself.