“Be not another, if you can be yourself. ”

“Alterius non sit qui suus esse potest. (Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.)”

“He who knows nothing, loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless. But he who understands alsoloves, notices, sees … The more knowledge is inherent in a thing, the greater the love.… Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.”

“...anyone who thinks that all fruits ripen at the same time as strawberries, knows nothing of grapes.”

“Thoughts are free and subject to no rule. On them rests the freedom of man, and they tower above the light of nature...create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy from which new arts flow.”

“All things are poisons, for there is nothing without poisonous qualities. It is only the dose which makes a thing poison.”

“Women's regular bleeding engenders phantoms.”