The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity.

The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon.

There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

The art of governing is a great metier, requiring the whole man, and it is therefore not well for a ruler to have too strong tendencies for other affairs.

Death is Nature's expert advice to get plenty of Life.

It is in vain that a man of sound mind and cool temper understands the condition of such a wretched being... He can no more communicate his own wisdom to him than a healthy man can instil his strength into the invalid by whose bedside he is seated.