If a woman possesses manly virtues, she is to be run away from; and if she does not possess them, she runs away herself.

Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows.

[Heraclitus speaks as if] in entrancement ... but [also] truthfully.

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

My idea of paradise is a straight line to goal

A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.

Without music, life would be a mistake.