To have and to want more that is life.

Resistance - that is the distinction of the slave. Let your distinction be obedience. Let your commanding itself be obeying!

Winter, a bad guest, sitteth with me at home; blue are my hands with his friendly handshaking

Seducing one's neighbor to a good opinion and then afterwards believing devoutly in this neighbor's opinion--who can match women in this clever ploy?

Thinking evil is making evil.

He divines remedies against injuries; he knows how to turn serious accidents to his own advantage; whatever does not kill him makes him stronger

Christianity is called the religion of pity.