To learn from our enemies is the best pathway to loving them: for it makes us grateful to them.

The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes.

Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it; it is the future that makes laws for our today.

The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and intimate things.

Astrology presupposes that the heavenly bodies are regulated in their movements in harmony with the destiny of mortals: the moral man presupposes that that which concerns himself most nearly must also be the heart and soul of things.

We are franker towards others than towards ourselves.

The truthful man ends up realizing that he always lies.