The golden age, when rambunctious spirits were regarded as the source of evil.

Insects sting, not from malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics; they desire our blood not our pain.

There are instances when we are like horses, we psychologists, and grow restless: we see our own shadow wavering up and down before us. A psychologist must look away from himself in order to see anything at all.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

Knowing things halfway is a greater success than knowing things completely: it takes things to be simpler than they really are andso makes its opinions more easily understandable and persuasive.

Lightning and thunder need time, the light of the stars needs time, deeds need time, even after they are done, to be seen and heard.

The condition that gives birth to a rule is not the same as the condition to which the rule gives birth.