Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour.

We can redeem anyone who strives unceasingly.

The bad thing is that thinking about thought doesn't help at all; one has to have it from nature so that the good ideas appear before us like free children of God calling to us: Here we are.

To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.

Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.

Waste not a day in vain digression; with resolute, courageous trust seek every possible impression and make it firmly your posession you'll then work on because you must.

I will say with Lorenzo de Medici that those who do not hope for another life are always dead to this one.