What is it that you love in others?--My hopes.

When gods die, they always die many sorts of death.

Verily, I do not want to be like the ropemakers: They drag out their threads and always walk backwards.

If one seeks relief from unbearable pressure, one is to eat hashish.

The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.

If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved

One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or be forever faithful to someone is promising something that is not in his power.