One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.

Whoever has character also has his typical experience, which returns over and over again.

Whoever has really sacrificed anything, knows that he wanted and got something in return.

Everyone becomes brave when he observes one who despairs.

My idea of paradise is a straight line to goal

There is more wisdom in your body than in your best wisdom. And who then knows why your body needs precisely your best wisdom?

One man runs to his neighbor because he is looking for himself, and another because he wants to loose himself. Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison for you.