He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.

There are many faculties in man, each of which takes its turn of activity, and that faculty which is paramount in any period and exerts itself through the strongest nation, determines the civility of that age: and each age thinks its own the perfection of reason.

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.

When all shoot at one mark, the gods join in the combat.

Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.

I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.