It is better to be feared than to be loved, if you can not be both.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

When your Daemon is in charge, do not try to think consciously. Drift, wait, and obey.

If what one has to say is not better than silence, then one should keep silent.

The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.

Unfortunately, repressed emotions do not die. They are silenced. But they continue to affect the person.

All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

I don’t. I don’t want anybody else to touch you. I’m silly. I get furious if they touch you.

He who is concerned only with the purity of his own life ruins the great human relations.

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper names.