Lawyers for delinquents are rarely so illustrious as to be able to turn to the guilty party all the glamor of a horrible deed.
Madness is rare among individuals, but within groups, parties of peoples, ages - it is like a rule.
It is not in man's nature to bless when he is cursed.
Men deal most unfairly with their God: they do not allow him to err.
The belly appears because it is not so easy for man to imagine that he is God.
Often the offender does not live up to his deed - then he diminishes its importance and slanders it.
Sometimes kindness stings and looks mean.
Strong belief in some object can give birth to an innocent lie.
There are cases when we, psychologists, resemble horses and are overcome by anxiety: we see our own shadow swaying. The psychologist does not have to look at himself in order to be able to see in general.
After all, we love our own lust, and not the object of it.
In peacetime, the warrior man rushes upon himself.
In revenge and love, woman is fiercer than man.
Nowadays, the knower easily feels like an animal transformed into a divinity.
In your own wild essence you rest best from your artificiality, from your spirituality...
In indulgence there is no trace of misanthropy, precisely because there is too much contempt for people.
There is more nagging in a praise than in a rebuke.
The great epochs of our lives begin when we have the courage to rename our evil into something better.
Objection, doubt, irony are the essence of health: everything that is indisputable belongs to pathology.
Around a hero, everything becomes tragedy, around a demigod, everything becomes satirical drama, and around God everything becomes - how? Maybe "world"?
Willingness and overcoming one emotion is just the will to fight another emotion or even more.
An artist's needs are modest: he wants only two things, bread and art.
When choosing between scientists and painters you can easily go wrong, orienting yourself in the opposite direction: often in a remarkable scientist we find a mediocre man, but in a mediocre painter we often find a remarkable man.
Everything done out of love always happens beyond good and evil.
"Where there is a tree of knowledge, there is always heaven" - so old and new snakes tell us.
The brilliant man is unbearable if he does not already possess at least two qualities: the sense of gratitude and that of honesty.
Even cohabitation degrades: when it turns into marriage.
Getting enough even protects you from colds. Has a woman who can dress well ever caught a cold? I suppose only if she was thinly clad.
The man who feels that he is loved, but loves no one, shows his shortcomings: the vilest things come out.
If we train our conscience, then it will kiss us even when it bites us.
If the woman has manly virtues, run away from her; and if she has no manly virtues, she will run away alone.