Do not fear the ones who argue, but rather those who are evasive.

Unattainable wishes are often "pious." This seems to indicate that only profane wishes are fulfilled.

Accident is veiled necessity.

The simplest and most familiar truth seems new and wonderful the instant we ourselves experience it for the first time.

You can sink so fast that you think you are flying.

Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servants’ quarters and leaves the sumptuous rooms empty.

There are women who love their husbands as blindly, as enthusiastically, and as enigmatically as nuns their cloister.