Our sense of the tragic waxes and wanes with our sensuality.

Whatever may be your desire to accomplish great deeds, the deep silence of pregnancy never comes to you! The event of the day sweeps you along like straws before the wind whilst ye lie under the illusion that ye are chasing the event,-poor fellows! If a man wishes to act the hero on the stage he must not think of forming part of the chorus; he should not even know how the chorus is made up.

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

Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood.

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

Prejudice of the learned. - The learned judge correctly that people of all ages have believed they know what is good and evil, praise- and blameworthy. But it is a prejudice of the learned that we now know better than any other age.

Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed.