A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

Mastery.- We have reached mastery when we neither mistake nor hesitate in the achievement.

Towards gnats and fleas we should show no pity. We would do right to hang petty thieves, petty calumniators, and slanderers.

What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.

How do you expect to learn to dance when you have not even learned to walk! And above the dancer is still the flyer and his bliss.

When anyone apologizes to us he has to do it very expertly: otherwise we might easily come to see ourselves as the guilty party and experience unpleasant feelings.

I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers.