These auspicious aspects, which the astrologers subsequently interpreted for me, may have been the causes of my preservation.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

The one who acts is always without conscience; nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.

Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own.

Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way.

Boldness has power, magic and genius in it.

There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly).