Here the spirit becomes a lion who would conquer his freedom and be master… Who is the great dragon whom the spirit will no longer call lord and go? ‘Thou shalt’ is the name of the great dragon. But the spirit of the lion says, ‘I will.

One hears - one does not seek; one takes - one does not ask who gives.

Marriages that made out of love (so-called "love-matches") have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother.

The parasites live where the great have little secret sores.

I hate who steals my solitude, without really offer me in exchange company.

I presume that you are compassionate: to be without pity means to be sick in body and spirit. But one should have spirit in abundance, so as to be permitted to be compassionate! For your pity is detrimental to you and to everyone.

Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?...Third question for the conscience.