I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part.

In almost all sciences the fundamental knowledge is either found in earliest times or is still being sought.

The sick are the greatest danger for the healthy; it is not from the strongest that harm comes to the strong, but from the weakest.

I am a law only for my kind, I am no law for all.

To have and to want more that is life.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.