The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions.

Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge.

Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?

How little is required for pleasure! The sound of a bagpipe - without music, life would be an error.

Heavy, heavy-hearted people grow lighter and rise occasionally to their surface through precisely that which makes others heavier,through hatred and love.

We seldom break a leg as long as we are climbing wearily upwards in our lives, instead we do it when we start going easy on ourselves and choosing the comfortable paths.