We ask the poet: 'What subject have you chosen?' instead of: 'What subject has chosen you?

People more easily tolerate opposition than a contradiction

Not reading a beautiful book again because you've already read it, that is, as if you were not visiting a dear friend again because you know him already.

To be satisfied with little is hard, to be satisfied with a lot is impossible.

Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.

When curiosity turns to serious matters, it's called research.

Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.