Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Drunkenness is nothing else but a voluntary madness.

It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.

Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. He is above, or at any rate, beyond the reach of, all political powers.

The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom - that deed and word should be in accord.

True love can fear no one.

It is man's duty to live in conformity with the divine will, and this means, firstly, bringing his life into line with 'nature's laws', and secondly, resigning himself completely and uncomplainingly to whatever fate may send him. Only by living thus, and not setting too high a value on things which can at any moment be taken away from him, can he discover that true, unshakeable peace and contentment to which ambition, luxury and above all avarice are among the greatest obstacles.