The greatest giver of alms is cowardice.

Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.

You are treading the path to your greatness: no one shall follow you here! Your passage has effaced the path behind you, and above that path stands written: Impossibility.

Sins are indispensable to every society organized on an ecclesiastical basis; they are the only reliable weapons of power; the priest lives upon sins; it is necessary to him that there be sinning.

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.

No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.

Ten times must you laugh during the day, and be cheerful; otherwise your stomach, the father of affliction, will disturb you in the night.