We ought to face our destiny with courage.

Learn to see - accustoming the eye to calm, to patience, to letting-things-come-to-it; learning to defer judgment, to encircle and encompass the question on all sides.

It is not in how one soul approaches another but in how it withdraws that I knowr its affinity and solidarity with the other.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

We ought to learn from the kine one thing: ruminating.

The same relation exists between merchant and pirate, who for a long period are one and the same person: where the one function appears to them inadvisable, they exercise the other.

Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men.