Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

It quite often happens that the old man is subject to the delusion of a great moral renewal and rebirth, and from this experience he passes judgments on the work and course of his life, as if he had only now become clear-sighted; and yet the inspiration behind this feeling of well-being and these confident judgements is not wisdom, but weariness .

It is however a disgrace to pray! Not for all, but for you, and me, and whoever has his a conscience.

Whoever possesses abundant joy must be a good man: but he is probably not the cleverest man, although he achieves exactly what it is that the cleverest man strives with all his cleverness to achieve.

One has renounced the great life when one renounces war.

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth.