A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place.

A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.

I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.

I detest war; it ruins conversation

It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.

People almost always do great things without knowing how to do them, and are quite surprised to have done them.

Since the princes take the Earth for their own, it's fair that the philosophers reserve the sky for themselves and rule there, but they should never permit the entry of others.