Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.
Life is but a preparation for what there is to come.
Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
The eye doesn't see any shapes, it sees only what is differentiated through light and dark or through colors.
The clever reader who is capable or reading between these lines what does not stand written in them but is nevertheless implied will be able to form some conception.