But tell me: how did gold get to be the highest value? Because it is uncommon and useless and gleaming and gentle in its brilliance; it always gives itself. Only as an image of the highest virtue did gold get to be the highest value. The giver's glance gleams like gold. A golden brilliance concludes peace between the moon and the sun. Uncommon is the highest virtue and useless, it is gleaming and gentle in its brilliance: a gift-giving virtue is the highest virtue.

They climb the mountain like beasts, stupid and sweating; it seems that no one bothered to tell them that there are beautiful vistas along the way.

That is an artist as I would have an artist be, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art--panemet Circen.

A woman's pity, which is talkative, carries the sick person's bed to the public marketplace.

Everything is the same, nothing is worthwhile, the world is senseless, knowledge strangles.

Not doubt, certainty is what drives one insane.

Only with the ultimate knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are but the boundaries of man.