Whoever turns away from us might not offend us in doing so perhaps, but he certainly offends our followers.

The mouth may lie, alright, but the face it makes nonetheless tells the truth.

At the beginning of a marriage ask yourself whether this woman will be interesting to talk to from now until old age. Everything else in marriage is transitory: most of the time is spent in conversation.

I want to speak to the despisers of the body. I would not have them learn and teach differently, but merely say farewell to their own bodies-- and thus become silent.

And nobody lies as much as the indignant do.

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

A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch. Hence it is the greatest paradox in literature, the imperishable in the midst of change, the nourishment which always remains highly valued, as salt does, and never becomes stupid like salt.