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

A book full of brilliance imparts some of it even to its opponents.

The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another.

Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.

It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men.

Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.

Each word of Heraclitus expresses the pride and the majesty of truth, but of truth grasped in intuitions rather than attained by the rope ladder of logic.