Several classical sayings that one likes to repeat had quite a different meaning from the ones later times attributed to them.

Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end.

Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.

The philosophers must station themselves in the middle.

The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiation - creation - there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans.

Our virtues and view spring from one root.