My formula for happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.

If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved

The ordinary man is as courageous and invulnerable as a hero when he does not recognize any danger, when he has no eyes to see it.Conversely, the hero's only vulnerable spot is on his back, and so exactly where he has no eyes.

Whoever knows he is deep tries to be clear, but whoever wants to seem deep to the crowd tries to be obscure. For the crowd supposes that anything it cannot see to the bottom must be deep: it is so timid and goes so unwillingly into the water.

Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.

Learn to laugh at yourselves as one must laugh!

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.