It is good even to be a fisherman in summer and in winter.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

It would seem as if the very language of our parlors would lose all its nerve and degenerate into palaver wholly, our lives pass at such remoteness from its symbols, and its metaphors and tropes are necessarily so far fetched.

If within the sophisticated man there is not an unsophisticated one, then he is but one of the devil's angels.

You must ascend a mountain to learn your relation to matter, and so to your own body, for it is at home there, though you are not.

The state does not demand justice of its members, but thinks that it succeeds very well with the least degree of it, hardly more than rogues practice; and so do the neighborhood and the family. What is commonly called Friendship even is only a little more honor among rogues.

To forget all about your mistakes adds to them perhaps.