But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Distrust all those who talk much of their justice!

Physician, help yourself: thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help: that he may behold with his eyes the man who heals himself.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

We are praised or blamed, as the one or the other may be expedient, for displaying to advantage our power of discernment.

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

Nothing can be done about it: every master has but a single pupil--and he will not stay loyal to him--for he is also destined to become a master.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.