If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good.

The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

We believe that we know something about the things themselves when we speak of trees, colors, snow, and flowers; and yet we possess nothing but metaphors for things - metaphors which correspond in no way to the original entities.

Whoever regards human beings as a herd and flees them as swiftly as he can will no doubt be overtaken by them and impaled on theirhorns.

All words are prejudices.

Every great love brings with it the cruel idea of killing the object of its love so that it may be removed once and for all from the wicked game of change: for love dreads change even more than annihilation.