They're so cold, these scholars! May lightning strike their food so that their mouths learn how to eat fire!

Style ought to prove that one believes in an idea; not only that one thinks it but also feels it.

There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable people, did not bring it in with them.

I hate you most because you attract, but are not strong enough to pull me to you.

I know the hatred and envy of your hearts. Ye are not great enough not to know of hatred and envy. Then be great enough not to be ashamed of them!

When a man has just been greatly honored and has eaten a little he is the most generous.

Only great pain is, as the teacher of great suspicion, the ultimate liberator of the spirit...I doubt whether such pain improves us-but I do know it deepens us.