Fools usually know best that which the wise despair of ever comprehending.

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

We are not always even what we are most.

Never strive, O artist, to create what you are not irresistibly impelled to create!

As far as your self-control goes, as far goes your freedom.

We are valued wither too highly or not high enough; we are never taken at our real worth.

Since the well-known victory over the hare by the tortoise, the descendants of the tortoise think themselves miracles of speed.