Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

You pass by a little child, you pass by, spiteful, with ugly words, with wrathful heart; you may not have noticed the child, but he has seen you, and your image, unseemly and ignoble, may remain in his defenseless heart. You don't know it, but you may have sown an evil seed in him and it may grow, and all because you were not careful before the child, because you did not foster in yourself a careful, actively benevolent love.

I am too young and I've loved you too much.

If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.

I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there - that is living.

I am a sick man...I am a wicked man. An unattractive man. I think my liver hurts. However, i don't know a fig about my sickness, and am not sure what it is that hurts me. I am not being treated and never have been, though I respect medicine. What's more, I am also superstitious in the extreme; well, at least enough to respect medicine.

Yes, that's right... love should come before logic ... Only then will man come to understand the meaning of life.