How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.

There is nothing outside of us that is not at the same time in us, and as the external world has its colors the eye, too, has colors.

To have seen Italy without having seen Sicily is to not have seen Italy at all, for Sicily is the clue to everything.

We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

Where confidence is wanting, the most beautiful flower in the garland of love is missing.

Woe to falsehood! it affords no relief to the breast, like truth; it gives us no comfort, pains him who forges it, and like an arrow directed by a god flies back and wounds the archer.