When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality.

We pay dearly for immortality: we die for it more than once during our lifetimes.

Immature is the love of the youth, and immature his hatred of man and earth. His mind and the wings of his spirit are still tied down and heavy.

We evaluate the services that anyone renders to us according to the value he puts on them, not according to the value they have for us.

[Heraclitus had] the highest form of pride [stemming] from a certainty of belief in the truth as grasped by himself alone. He brings this form, by its excessive development, into a sublime pathos by involuntary identification of himself with his truth.

If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago.

Life without music is no life at all.