There is no more dangerous error than that of mistaking the consequence for the cause.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

In our own presence, we all pretend to be simpler than we are: thus we take a break from our fellow human beings.

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.

Madness is the result not of uncertainty but certainty.

I presume that you are compassionate: to be without pity means to be sick in body and spirit. But one should have spirit in abundance, so as to be permitted to be compassionate! For your pity is detrimental to you and to everyone.

What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.