Nature goes her own way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.

The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or whatever else in deference to the wishes of others, rather than because his own desire or needs lead him to do so, will always be a fool.

Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.

Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.

Neither art thou the man to catch the fiend and hold him! [Ger., Du bist noch nicht der Mann den Teufel festzuhalten.

The rogue has everywhere the advantage.

Man cannot persist long in a conscious state, he must throw himself back into the unconscious, for his root lives there.