Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don’t throw away the best of yourself.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
Narrow souls I cannot abide; There's almost no good or evil inside
[Heraclitus' language] dispenses with lightness and artificial decoration, foremost out of disgust for humanity and out of [his own] defiant feeling.