If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish.

A woman's pity, which is talkative, carries the sick person's bed to the public marketplace.

If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy.

Ah, how little you know of human happiness - you comfortable and benevolent people! For happiness and unhappiness are brother and sister - or even twins who grow up together - or in your case - remain small together!

Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and convincing.

All parties attempt to represent important things that have developed outside themselves as unimportant, and where they fail in this they assail those things all the more bitterly the more admirable they are.

Where neither love nor hatred is in the game, a woman's game is mediocre.