In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary.
The familiarity of superiors embitters one, because it may not be returned.
To call a thing good not a day longer than it appears to us good, and above all not a day earlier - that is the only way to keep joy pure.
We can destroy only as creators
Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.
A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves- and who want to go where I want to go.