You are treading the path to your greatness: no one shall follow you here! Your passage has effaced the path behind you, and above that path stands written: Impossibility.

Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be understood.

Probability but no truth, facility but no freedom--it is owing to these two fruits that the tree of knowledge cannot be confused with the tree of life.

I have not the capability to give you my loyalty, nor do I have the vanity to appear as if I did.

Do not paint a picture either of God or the devil on your walls: this will ruin both your walls and the atmosphere.

A nation usually renews its youth on a political sick-bed, and there finds again the spirit which it had gradually lost in seeking and maintaining power.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.