You must climb above yourself-up and beyond, until you have even your stars under you.

In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

It is not enough to prove something, one also has to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man of knowledge should learns how to speak his wisdom: and often in such a way that it sounds like folly!

Ten truths must you find during the day; otherwise will you seek truth during the night, and your soul will have been hungry.

There are the terrible ones who carry about in themselves the beast of prey, and have no choice except lusts or self-laceration. And even their lusts are self-laceration.

It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men.