Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good.

The so called unconscious inferences can be traced back to the all-preserving memory, which presents us with parallel experiences and hence already knows the consequences of an action. It is not anticipation of the effects; rather, it is the feeling: identical causes, identical effects . . .

If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy.

The gilded sheath of pity sometimes covers the dagger of envy.

This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!

Knowing things halfway is a greater success than knowing things completely: it takes things to be simpler than they really are andso makes its opinions more easily understandable and persuasive.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.