And if ye cannot be saints of knowledge, then, I pray you, be at least its warriors. They are the companions and forerunners of such saintship.

I go in solitude, so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think I really think; after a time it always seems as if they want to banish myself from myself and rob me of my soul.

If you know the why, you can live any how.

Asceticism is the right way of thinking for those who have to extirpate their sensual drives because they are ravening beasts of prey. But only for those!

Marriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity.

Be generous in nature and thought; for this wins respect and gives confidence and power.

What is not intelligible to me is not necessarily unintelligent