The shortest route is not the most direct one, but rather the one where the most favorable winds swell our sails:Mthat is the lesson that seafarers teach. Not to abide by this lesson is to be obstinate: here, firmness of character is tainted with stupidity.

We no longer love our knowledge enough once we have passed it on.

Everyone carries within himself an image of womanliness derived from his mother: it is this that determines whether, on the whole,he will revere women, or despise them, or remain generally indifferent to them.

What the father kept silent the son speaks out.

We should turn our death into a celebration, even if only out of a malice towards life: towards the woman who wants to leave--us!

Whoever regards human beings as a herd and flees them as swiftly as he can will no doubt be overtaken by them and impaled on theirhorns.

In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain.