The one seeks a midwife to deliver his thoughts, the other, someone to assist: thus a good conversation comes into being.

Priests ... these turkey-cocks of God.

They're so cold, these scholars! May lightning strike their food so that their mouths learn how to eat fire!

The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.

The reasons for which 'this' world has been characterized as 'apparent' are the very reasons which indicate its reality; any other kind of reality is absolutely indemonstrable.

People who, out of an inborn moderation, leave every glass standing only half-emptied refuse to admit that everything in the world has its sediments and dregs.

Then is what you see through this window onto the world so lovely that you have no desire whatsoever to look out through any other window, and that you even make an attempt to prevent others from doing so?