One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

It is much easier to meet with error than to find truth; error is on the surface, and can be more easily met with; truth is hid in great depths, the way to seek does not appear to all the world.

He who can not learn to love must flatter.

Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.

The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish; the impressions remain flat and unconnected in the soul. Thus they are easily led by the opinions of others, are content to let their impressions be shuffled and rearranged and evaluated differently.