How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover what you're like.

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks he can talk about language.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

Nothing is so atrocious as fancy without taste.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.