One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.

With one more talent one frequently stands with greater instability than with one less, as a table stands better on three legs than on four.

It is only because man believes himself to be free, not because he is free, that he experiences remorse and pricks of conscience.

Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.

The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how the four cardinal virtues want us.

Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying--that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire.

A labyrinthine man never seeks the truth, but only his Ariadne.