Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

When we cannot stand certain people, we try to have suspicions about them.

We must repay goodness and wickedness: but why exactly to the person who has done us a good or a wicked turn?

Nothing ever succeeds which exuberant spirits have not helped to produce.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

I want to speak to the despisers of the body. I would not have them learn and teach differently, but merely say farewell to their own bodies-- and thus become silent.

The poison by which the weaker nature is destroyed is strengthening to the strong individual and he does not call it poison.