How far is truth susceptible of embodiment? That is the question, that is the experiment.

I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom.

If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved

Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended.

[Heraclitus] did not require humans or their sort of knowledge, since everything into which one may inquire he despises [as being] in contrast [to his own] inward-turning wisdom. [To him] all learning from others is a sign of nonwisdom, because the wise man focuses his vision on his own intelligence.

Every habit makes our hand more witty and our wit less handy.

What really makes one indignant about suffering isn't the thing itself but the senselessness of it.