Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of impropriety onto our own side of the scale.

The greatest giver of alms is cowardice.

All things that are truly great are at first thought impossible.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

He who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves.

Was mich nicht zugrunde richtet, macht mich starker.

In those days it was possible for a Greek to flee from an over-abundant reality as though it were but the tricky scheming off the imagination-and to flee, not like Plato into the land of eternal ideas, into the workshop off the world-creator, feasting one's eyes on the unblemished unbreakable archetypes, but into the rigor mortis off the coldest emptiest concept off all, the concept of being.