Socrates and Plato are right: whatever man does he always does well, that is, he does that which seems to him good (useful) according to the degree of his intellect, the particular standard of his reasonableness.

There is an innocence in lying which is the sign of good faith in a cause.

It's not the intensity of the man, but the duration of his intensity that makes the man great.

The concepts "soul", "spirit" and last of all the concept "immortal soul" were invented in order to despise the body, in order to make it sick - "holy" - in order to cultivate an attitude of appalling disrespect for all things in life which deserve to be treated seriously i.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your best wisdom. And who then knows why your body needs precisely your best wisdom?

Some men are born posthumously.

A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.