Learning from one's enemies is the best way to love them, for it puts one into a grateful mood toward them.

What saved me then? Nothing but pregnancy. And each time after I had given birth to my work my life hung suspended by a thin thread.

A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch.

The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes.

What was a lie in the father becomes a conviction in the son.

We fear our neighbor's hostile mood because we are afraid that this mood will lead him to penetrate our secrets.

In what does the objective measure of value lie? In the quantum of enhanced and organized power alone, in accordance with what occurs in all occurrence, a will to increase.