Having A Talent Is Not

People Who Wish To Numb Our Caution In Dealing With Them By Means Of Flattery Are Employing A Dangerous Expedient, Like A Sleeping Draught, Which, If It Does Not Put Us To Sleep, Keeps Us All The More Awake.

Truly, Whoever Possesses Little Is That Much Less Possessed: Praised Be A Little Poverty!

I Consist Of Body And Soul - In The Worlds Of A Child. And Why Shouldn't We Speak Like Children? But The Enlightened, The Knowledgealbe Would Say: I Am Body Through And Through, Nothing More; And The Soul Is Just A Word For Something On The Body.

In Every Age The Wisest Have Passed The Identical Judgment On Life: It Is Worthless.

It Is The Powerful Who Know How To Honour, It Is Their Art, Their Domain For Invention.