Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best.

Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.

Our passions are true phoenixes; as the old burn out the new straight rise up from the ashes.

The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.

The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored.

If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill.