This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.

Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence.

That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good - the atavism of an old ideal.

The greatest giver of alms is cowardice.

The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.

One must need to be strong, otherwise one will never become strong.