Resistance - that is the distinction of the slave. Let your distinction be obedience. Let your commanding itself be obeying!

I have learned to walk: since then I have run. I have learned to fly: since then I do not have to be pushed in order to move. Now I am nimble, now I fly, now I see myself under myself, now a god dances within me.

It is not enough to prove something, one also has to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man of knowledge should learns how to speak his wisdom: and often in such a way that it sounds like folly!

History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their accustomed and indisputable principles.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

You may have enemies whom you hate, but not enemies whom you despise. You must be proud of your enemy: then the success of your enemy shall be your success too.

That God became man indicates only this: that man should not seek his salvation in eternity, but rather establish his heaven on earth.