Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!

No one is so terribly deceived as he who does not himself suspect it.

Pain reconciles one to existence. Infinite resignation is that shirt in the old fable. The thread is spun with tears, bleached by tears, the shirt sewn in tears, but then it also gives better protection than iron. The secret in life is that everyone must sew it for himself.

The more men believe an idea to be true the greater the likelihood that the idea is mistaken. Those who are right usually stand alone.

Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.

To pace about, looking to obtain status, looking to attain 'importance' - I can think of nothing more ridiculous.

For like a poisonous breath over the fields, like a mass of locusts over Egypt, so the swarm of excuses is a general plaque, a ruinous infection among men, that eats off the sprouts of the Eternal.