To be the equal of one's opponent-this is the first condition of an honourable duel.

Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home swiftly out of the rays of some insight that suddenly dawned on him, while another thinker offers us nothing but shadows - images in black and grey of what had built up in his soul the day before.

Plato was a bore.

If a woman possesses manly virtues, she is to be run away from; and if she does not possess them, she runs away herself.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly.

If God had wanted to become an object of love, he would first of all have had to forgo judging and justice : a judge, and even a gracious judge, is no object of love.