The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.

Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.

Christianity, alcohol the two great means of corruption.

We have to learn how to come out of unclean situations cleaner than we were, and even how to wash ourselves with dirty water whenwe need to.

I awoke you from your sleep because I saw that you were having a nightmare. And now you are cross and say to me: "What are we supposed to do now? Everything is still night!" You ingrates! You should go to sleep again and dream better.

What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.

The condition that gives birth to a rule is not the same as the condition to which the rule gives birth.