How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover what you're like.

The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Do not hurry; do not rest.

Superstition belongs to the essence of mankind and takes refuge, when one thinks one has suppressed it completely, in the strangest nooks and crannies; once it is safely ensconced there, it suddenly reappears.

The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks

The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.