I have been casting shadows all my life without caring about how deeply they stain my soul.

There is sense in hoping for recognition in a distant future only when we take it for granted that mankind will remain essentially unchanged, and that whatever is great is not for one age only but will be looked upon as great for all time.

You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.

There is nothing that has caused me to meditate more on Plato's secrecy and sphinx-like nature, than the happily preserved petit fait that under the pillow of his death-bed there was found no 'Bible,' nor anything Egyptian, Pythagorean, or Platonic - but a book of Aristophanes. How could even Plato have endured life - a Greek life which he repudiated - without an Aristophanes!

Be careful who you choose as your enemy because that's who you become most like.

Speaking is a beautiful folly; with that man dances over all things.

One can lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace one nevertheless tells the truth.