Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty

Many find their heart when they have lost their head

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still

Fear is the mother of morality

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler

Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy