I admire the courage and wisdom of Socrates in everything he did, said--and did not say.

One hears but one does not seek; one takes -- one does not ask who gives; a thought flashes up like lightning, it comes of necessity and unfalteringly formed.

Everyone who enjoys supposes that the tree was concerned with the fruit, but it was really concerned with the seed. -In this lies the difference between all those who create and those who enjoy.

Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

In magnanimity there is the same amount of egoism as in revenge, but egoism of a different quality.

Mastery.- We have reached mastery when we neither mistake nor hesitate in the achievement.