For out of fear and need each religion is born, creeping into existence on the byways or reason.

And when your soul becometh great, then doth it become haughty, and in your sublimity there is wickedness.

For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks.

We must understand how to hide in darkness in order to escape the gnat-swarms of utterly annoying admirers.

We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.

The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night.

He has drawn back, only in order to have enough room for his leap