Warfare is the father of all good things, it is also the father of good prose!

The noble man honours in himself the powerful one, him also who has power over himself, who knows how to speak and how to keep silence, who takes pleasure in subjecting himself to severity and hardness, and has reverence for all that is severe and hard.

The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin.

Just as soon as we notice that someone has to force himself to pay attention when dealing and talking with us, we have a valid demonstration that he does not love us or that he does not love us anymore.

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

Fall down seven times, stand up eight. - Chinese proverbWithout music, life would be a mistake.

Industriousness and conscientiousness are often at odds, because industriousness wants to pick the still sour fruit from the tree,while conscientiousness lets it hang there too long, until it falls and bruises.