The greatest giver of alms is cowardice.

The golden fleece of self-sufficiency guards against cudgel- blows but not against pin-pricks.

The greatest events-they are not our loudest but our stillest hours.

Giving style” to one’s character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason and even weakness delights the eye.

Men are even lazier than they are timorous, and what they fear most is the troubles with which any unconditional honesty and nudity would burden them.

You should seek your enemy, you should wage your war - a war for your opinions. And when your opinion is defeatedy our honesty should still cry triumph over that!

What is done out of love always occurs beyond good and evil.