If we have injured someone, giving him the opportunity to make a joke about us is often enough to provide him personal satisfaction, or even to win his good will.

The will to incessant creation is vulgar, betraying jealousy, envy, and ambition. Assuming that you are something, there is really nothing that you need to do-and yet you do a great deal. Above the "productive" man there is still a higher type.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.