Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.

Perhaps the most embarrassing experience is being caught at a lie by a simpleton who sneers at our asinine cleverness.

Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house.

As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.

Even with limited intelligence, knowing oneself is not as difficult as some say, but to act according to what one has realized about oneself in real life is as difficult as practicing anything else, compared to theory.