Whatever happens at all happens as it should; you will find this true, if you watch narrowly. Book IV

To change your mind and to follow him who sets you right is to be nonetheless the free agent that you were before. Book VIII

For sight is woman-like and shuns the old. Ah! he can see enough, when years are told, Who backwards looks. Eviradnus

Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself -- in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity -- is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them. On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense