Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs that freedom never endangered.

You made your bed, now lie in it.

The man who opts for revenge should dig two graves.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

Miracles enables us to judge of doctrine and doctrine enable us to judge of miracles.

Every advantage has its tax

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyoneelse.

An artist is only a very small part of the universe and should receive no more attention than any other thing on earth which provides us with beauty, happiness and plenty

Takeyour life into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Byblending the breath of the sun and the shade, true harmony comes into theworld.

Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it