Many die too late, and some die too early. Yet strangers soundeth the precept: "Die at the right time!"

Creation is the great redemption from suffering and all life's growing light. But the creator must be suffering if needed and accept much change.

Men were considered "free" only so that they might be considered guilty - could be judged and punished: consequently, every act had to be considered as willed, and the origin of every act had to be considered as lying within the consciousness (and thus the most fundamental psychological deception was made the principle of psychology itself).

When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life.

Remain true to the earth.

The same relation exists between merchant and pirate, who for a long period are one and the same person: where the one function appears to them inadvisable, they exercise the other.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.