Physician, help yourself: thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help: that he may behold with his eyes the man who heals himself.

A book full of brilliance imparts some of it even to its opponents.

Whoever gives advice to a sick person acquires a feeling of superiority over him, whether the advice be accepted or rejected.

One is most dishonest to one's god: he is not allowed to sin.

What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe. It is the honey in my veins that makes my blood thicker, and my soul quieter.

That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good - the atavism of an old ideal.

The disgust with dirt can be so great that it keeps us from cleaning ourselves--from "justifying" ourselves.