It is of great advantage that man should know his station, and not imagine that the whole universe exists only for him.

I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.

Work before eating, rest after eating. Eat not ravenously, filling the mouth gulp after gulp without breathing space.

In the beginning we must simplify the subject, thus unavoidably falsifying it, and later we must sophisticate away the falsely simple beginning.

It is of great advantage that man should know his station, and not imagine that the whole universe exists only for him.

He who does not understand that a dead lion is more alive than a living dog will remain a dog.

It should not be believed that all beings exist for the sake of the existence of man. On the contrary, all the other beings too have been intended for their own sakes and not for the sake of anything else.