Say, Not so, and you will out circle the philosophers.

Perfect sincerity and transparency make a great part of beauty, as in dewdrops, lakes, and diamonds.

Long enough I had heard of irrelevant things; now at length I was glad to make acquaintance with the light that dwells in rotten wood. Where is all your knowledge gone to? It evaporates completely, for it has no depth.

A man's social and spiritual discipline must answer to his corporeal. He must lean on a friend who has a hard breast, as he wouldlie on a hard bed. He must drink cold water for his only beverage. So he must not hear sweetened and colored words, but pure and refreshing truths. He must daily bathe in truth cold as spring water, not warmed by the sympathy of friends.

Insane!... Ask the tyrant who is his most dangerous foe, the sane man or the insane?

There are secret articles in our treaties with the gods, of more importance than all the rest, which the historian can never know.

What the first philosopher taught the last will have to repeat.