Here the ways of men divide. If you wish to strive for peace of soul and happiness, then believe; if you wish to be a disciple of truth, then inquire.

It is not to everyone's taste that truth should be pronounced pleasant. But at least let no one believe that error becomes truth when it is pronounced unpleasant.

How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.

That a person cannot and consequently will not defend himself, does not yet cast disgrace upon him in our eyes ; but we despise the person who has neither the ability nor the good will for revenge whether it be a man or a woman.

He who seeks intelligence lacks intelligence.

The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and intimate things.

I am the leading strings of the ego and the prompter of its concepts.