“Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.”

“Invisible threads are the strongest ties.”

“After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.”

“Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.”

“Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.”

“you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame;
how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?”

“A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.”

“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”

“To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.”

“They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.”

“The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.”

“The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.”