Those with certain temperaments find no way to endure themselves except by striving towards going under.

I welcome all the signs indicating that a more manly and warlike age is commencing, which will, above all, bring heroism again into honour!

Do you believe then that the sciences would ever have arisen and become great if there had not before hand been magicians, alchemists, astrologers and wizards, who thirsted and hungered after abscondite and forbidden powers?

Every one being allowed to learn to read, ruineth in the long run not only writing but also thinking.

We have art so that we shall not die of reality.

Women's modesty generally increases with their beauty.

About sacrifice and the offering of sacrifices, sacrificial animals think quite differently from those who look on: but they have never been allowed to have their say.