It is only those who know how to feel that "this is not good" who devise improvements.

Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.

The code of Manu differs from the bible. By means of it the nobles, the philosophers, and the warriors keep the whip hand over the majority. It is full of noble valuations; it shows a feeling of perfection, an acceptance of life, and triumphant feeling toward self and life.

The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.

If you are too weak to give yourselves your own law, then a tyrant shall lay his yoke upon you and say: "Obey! Clench your teeth and obey!" And all good and evil shall be drowned in obedience to him.

In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs

Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.