From whatever you wish to know and measure you must take your leave, at least for a time. Only when you have left the town can yousee how high its towers rise above the houses.

They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it.

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

Generally speaking, the greater a woman's beauty, the greater her modesty.

Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?

No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year -- ever since the day when the great liberator came to me: the idea that life could be an experiment of the seeker for knowledge -- and not a duty, not a calamity, not trickery.

One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.