Whoever gives advice to the sick gains a sense of superiority over them, no matter whether his advice is accepted or rejected. That is why sick people who are sensitive and proud hate their advisors even more than their illnesses.

Reason" in language - oh, what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar.

Beware in the presence of cats: they never give, they do not even retaliate--they only reply, and purr in doing so.

Tolerance is a proof of distrust in one's own ideals.

People who wish to numb our caution in dealing with them by means of flattery are employing a dangerous expedient, like a sleeping draught, which, if it does not put us to sleep, keeps us all the more awake.

You never exist quite so much as when you are not thinking

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.