He who understands you is greater kin to you than your own brother. For even your own kindred neither understand you nor know your true worth.

A hermit is one who renounces the world of fragments that he may enjoy the world wholly and without interruption.

Life is weaker than Death and Death is weaker than Truth.

I had a second birth when my soul and my body loved one another and were married.

The fool sees naught but folly; and the madman only madness. Yesterday I asked a foolish man to count the fools among us. He laughed and said, "This is too hard a thing to do, and it will take too long. Were it not better to count only the wise?"

Then a lawyer said, But what of our laws, master? And he answered: 'You delight in laying down laws. Yet you delight more in breaking them.

He who passes not his days in the realm of dreams is the slave of the days.