Men subsequently put whatever is newly learned or experienced to use as a plowshare, perhaps even as a weapon: but women immediately include it among their ornaments.

One who dresses in rags that have been washed clean dresses cleanly to be sure, but raggedly nonetheless.

One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people.

Nothing ever succeeds which exuberant spirits have not helped to produce.

The golden fleece of self-sufficiency guards against cudgel- blows but not against pin-pricks.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

The love of power is the demon of mankind.