Women are constituted in such a way that all truth (regarding men, love, children, society, the purpose of life) disgusts them, and in such a way that they try to revenge themselves on anyone who opens their eyes.

If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good.

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

One is proud to worship when he cannot be an idol.

It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention.