Full is the earth of the superfluous; marred is life by the many-too-many. May they be decoyed out of this life by the "life eternal"!

I go in solitude, so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think I really think; after a time it always seems as if they want to banish myself from myself and rob me of my soul.

Humility has the toughest hide.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

I awoke you from your sleep because I saw that you were having a nightmare. And now you are cross and say to me: "What are we supposed to do now? Everything is still night!" You ingrates! You should go to sleep again and dream better.

Systems of morals are only a sign-language of the emotions.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.