When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it's alive; then they have the parts and the'be lost the whole, for the link that's missing was the living soul.

Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and none happy when they are over.

Neither art thou the man to catch the fiend and hold him! [Ger., Du bist noch nicht der Mann den Teufel festzuhalten.

Men are joined by conviction, sundered by opinion.

But the valid issue is the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.

One says a lot in vain, refusing; The other mainly hears the "No."

No matter what one says, you can recognize only those matters that are equal to you. Only rulers who possess extraordinary abilities will recognize and esteem properly extraordinary abilities in their subjects and servants.