“All is like, all unlike; all is useful and harmful, eloquent and dumb, reasonable and unreasonable. And what people profess about individual matters is often contradictory.”

“They should be ashamed of themselves, all these sober people!”

“Since you know me and my destiny only too well, you probably also know what attracts me to all unfortunate people.”

“All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.”

“If we put ourselves in the place of other people, the jealousy and hatred we so often feel about them would disappear, and if we put others in our place, pride and conceit would greatly diminish.”

“Basic characteristics of an individual organism: to divide, to unite, to merge into the universal, to abide in the particular, to transform itself, to define itself, and as living things tend to appear under a thousand conditions, to arise and vanish, to solidify and melt, to freeze and flow, to expand and contract. Since these effects occur together, any or all may occur at the same moment.”

“All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.”