What is evil?-Whatever springs from weakness.

You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.

He who bestows something great receives no gratitude; for in accepting it the recipient has already been weighed down too much.

Clever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights!

The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives acts and experiences otherwise than we do?

This crown to crown the laughing man, this rose-wreath crown: I myself have set this crown upon my head, I myself have pronounced my laughter holy.