Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

If an angel were to tell us about his philosophy, I believe many of his statements might well sound like '2 x 2= 13'.

It is a great shame; most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them.

Ambition and suspicion always go together.

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Probably no invention came more easily to man than heaven.