Everyone becomes brave when he observes one who despairs.

He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes along with superficial knowledge.

Here is a hero who did nothing but shake the tree as soon as the fruit was ripe. Does this seem to be too small a thing to you? Then take a good look at the tree he shook.

Free will without fate is no more conceivable than spirit without matter, good without evil.

On the heights it is warmer than people in the valley suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of this simile.

God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment-but many other things ceased as well!

Joy wants the eternity of all things, wants deep, wants deep eternity.