The pride of the artisan in his art and its uses is pride in himself...It is in his skill and ability to make things as he wishes them to be that he rejoices.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself.

love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

Philosophers are as jealous as women; each wants a monopoly of praise.