A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.

Only ideas won by walking have any value.

The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing--that is the final recourse of those who support punishment.

Marriages that made out of love (so-called "love-matches") have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother.

Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.

How much rationality and higher protection there is in such self-deception, and how much falseness I still require in order to allow myself again and again the luxury of my sincerity.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.