Verily, I do not want to be like the ropemakers: They drag out their threads and always walk backwards.

He who denies himself much in great matters will readily indulge himself in small things.

Someone said: "I have been prejudiced against myself from my earliest childhood: hence I find some truth in all blame and some stupidity in all praise. I generally estimate praise too poorly and blame too highly.

Faith is the path of least resistance.

The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has the strongest opponent, human vanity.

Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying--that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire.

It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind!