One can only be silent and sit peacefully when one hath arrow and bow; otherwise one prateth and quarrelleth. Let your peace be a victory!

What we do in dreams we also do when we are awake: we invent and fabricate the person with whom we associate - and immediately forget we have done so.

Yet where is your inner value when you no longer know what it is to breathe freely; when you no longer have freedom over your own selves

There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind.

To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.

The people we have employed in an undertaking that has turned out badly should be doubly rewarded.

One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity.