Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.

Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.

If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.

Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other words, by integrating everything into a whole, whereas talent produces only fragments, no matter how beautiful.

Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.

No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.

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.