Beggars should be abolished entirely! Verily, it is annoying to give to them and it is annoying not to give to them.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

It was subtle of God to learn Greek when he wished to become an author-and not to learn it better.

Body am I entirely, and nothing else; and soul is only a word for something about the body.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.

A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.

Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.

Everything that has been is eternal: the sea will wash it up again.

Christianity in particular should be dubbed a great treasure-chamber of ingenious consolations, such a store of refreshing, soothing, deadening drugs has it accumulated within itself.

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.