In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage.

Only individuals have a sense of responsibility.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

The same relation exists between merchant and pirate, who for a long period are one and the same person: where the one function appears to them inadvisable, they exercise the other.

People live for the morrow, because the day-after-to-morrow is doubtful.

The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves.

Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the crowd believes that if it cannot see to the bottom of something it must be profound. It is so timid and dislikes going into the water.