We must repay goodness and wickedness: but why exactly to the person who has done us a good or a wicked turn?

Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.

The most unendurable thing, to be sure, the really terrible thing, would be a life without habits, a life which continually required improvisation.

It is not when it is dangerous to tell the truth that its advocates are hardest to find, but when it is boring.

My time has not yet come either; some are born posthumously.

Anyone who has looked deeply into the world may guess how much wisdom lies in the superficiality of men. The instinct that preserves them teaches them to be flighty light, and false.

You shall become the person you are.