The doer alone learneth.

I go in solitude, so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think I really think; after a time it always seems as if they want to banish myself from myself and rob me of my soul.

Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly.

Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities.

Mastery has been achieved when one neither makes a mistake nor hesitates in the performance.

The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.

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.