Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one.

A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.

I am the Spirit that denies.

If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and its activity will continue through eternity.

One can't dull a project better than by discussing it repeatedly.