Call me whatever you like; I am who I must be.

I love him who desireth not too many virtues. One virtue is more of a virtue than two, because it is more of a knot for one's destiny to cling to.

We think that play and fairytales belong to childhood - how shortsighted that is! As though we would want at any time in our life to live without play and fairytales! We give these things other names, to be sure, and feel differently about them, but precisely this is the evidence that they are the same things, for the child too regards play as his work and fairy tales as his truth. The brevity of life ought to preserve us from a pedantic division of life into different stages - as though each brought something new.

Body am I entirely, and nothing else; and soul is only a word for something about the body.

Invisible threads are the strongest ties.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth.