So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.

It is far pleasanter to injure and afterwards beg forgiveness than to be injured and grant forgiveness. He who does the former gives evidence of power and afterwards of kindness of character.

I looked for great men, but all I found were the apes of their ideals.

I love him who desireth not too many virtues. One virtue is more of a virtue than two, because it is more of a knot for one's destiny to cling to.

It is doubtful whether anyone who has travelled widely has found anywhere in the world regions more ugly than in the human face.

[Heraclitus speaks as if] in entrancement ... but [also] truthfully.

I love him who maketh his virtue his inclination and destiny: thus, for the sake of his virtue, he is willing to live on, or live no more.