Against the censurers of brevity. - Something said briefly can be the fruit of much long thought: but the reader who is a novice in this field, and has as yet reflected on it not at all, sees in everything said briefly something embryonic, not without censuring the author for having served him up such immature and unripened fare.

In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man.

Every word instantly becomes a concept precisely insofar as it is not supposed to serve as a reminder of the unique and entirely individual original experience to which it owes its origin; but rather, a word becomes a concept insofar as it simultaneously has to fit countless more or less similar cases -- which means, purely and simply, cases which are never equal and thus altogether unequal.

Epicurus had rage and envy of Plato's superior style.

The charm of knowledge would be small indeed, were it not that there is so much shame to be overcome on the way to it.

Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon drop off.

One who dresses in rags that have been washed clean dresses cleanly to be sure, but raggedly nonetheless.