One must cease letting oneself be eaten when one tastes best: that is known to those who want to be loved long.

Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy.

You lovers of knowledge! So what have you done out of your love of knowledge up to now? Have you already stolen and murdered so as to know how a thief and a murderer feels?

Science offends the modesty of all real women. It makes them feel as though it were an attempt to peek under their skin--or, worseyet, under their dress and ornamentation!

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

It is difficult to live among people because silence is so difficult.

We must beware of one who is in a passion against us as of one who has once sought our life; for the fact that we still live is due to the absence of power to kill, - if looks could kill, we should have been dead long ago.