Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity-and finally liberty is bestowed by sleep.

If we have injured someone, giving him the opportunity to make a joke about us is often enough to provide him personal satisfaction, or even to win his good will.

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

Those who are devoid of purpose will make the void their purpose.

[Heraclitus' language] dispenses with lightness and artificial decoration, foremost out of disgust for humanity and out of [his own] defiant feeling.

Whoever has not two-thirds of his time to himself, is a slave.

I love him who scattereth golden words in advance of his deeds, and always doeth more than he promiseth: for he seeketh his own down-going.