If virtue goes to sleep, it will be more vigorous when it awakes.

Epicurus had rage and envy of Plato's superior style.

I want to know whether you are a person devoted to creating or to exchanging in some respect or other: as a creator you belong tothe free, as an exchanger you are their slave and instrument.

Whenever the truth is uncovered, the artist will always cling with rapt gaze to what still remains covering even after such uncovering; but the theoretical man enjoys and finds satisfaction in the discarded covering and finds the highest object of his pleasure in the process of an ever happy uncovering that succeeds through his own efforts.

No man ever wrote more eloquently and luminously [than Heraclitus].

I need solitude, which is to say, recovery, return to my self, the breath of a free, light, playful air.

Men should learn to live with the same seriousness with which children play.