Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed.

There are the terrible ones who carry about in themselves the beast of prey, and have no choice except lusts or self-laceration. And even their lusts are self-laceration.

When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him.

Such a man as instinctively feeds on pure ambrosia and leaves alone the indigestible in things.

"This - is now my way - where is yours"? Thus did I answer those who asked me "the way". For the way - it does not exist!

One has renounced the great life when one renounces war.

Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy.