The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world.

There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.

In all times it is only individuals that have advanced science, not the age.

It is unpleasant to miss even the most trifling thing to which we have been accustomed.

Alas, I have studied philosophy, the law as well as medicine, and to my sorrow, theology; studied them well with ardent zeal, yet here I am, a wretched fool, no wiser than I was before.

I have learned much from disease which life could have never taught me anywhere else.

Beware of her fair hair, for she excels All women in the magic of her locks; And when she winds them round a young man's neck, She will not ever set him free again.