Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes along with superficial knowledge.

It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention.

Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion.

No man ever wrote more eloquently and luminously [than Heraclitus].

The charm of knowledge would be small indeed, were it not that there is so much shame to be overcome on the way to it.

All parties attempt to represent important things that have developed outside themselves as unimportant, and where they fail in this they assail those things all the more bitterly the more admirable they are.