Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.

The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannotbe explored.

When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.

Most man only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.

They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.

That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over.

Our virtues and view spring from one root.