Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of the world.

Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude.

The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

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

One needs only to get old to become milder; I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made.

God made man simple, but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.