Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake.

The passions are like those demons with which Afrasahiab sailed down the Orus. Our only safety consists in keeping them asleep. If they we are lost.

Distrust those in whom the desire to punish is strong.

Hypotheses are the scaffolds which are erected in front of a building and removedd when the building is completed. They are indispensable to the worker; but the worker must not mistake the scaffolding for the building.

True love is love that stays constant for ever, whatever it's fortune; whether requited or scored, filled or sent empty away.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it.