When, however, you have an enemy, then do not requite him good for evil: for that would shame him. Instead, prove that he did some good for you. And rather be angry than put to shame! And when you are cursed, I do not like it that you want to bless. Rather curse a little also! And if you are done a great injustice, then quickly add five small ones. Hideous to behold is he who is obsessed with an injustice.

All great artists and thinkers are great workers.

The parasites live where the great have little secret sores.

If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.

Our body is simply a social structure made of many souls.

My idea of paradise is a straight line to goal

Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?