The poor never estimate as a virtue the generosity of the rich.
Never strive, O artist, to create what you are not irresistibly impelled to create!
The believer who has never doubted will hardly convert a doubter.
There are times when to be reasonable is to be cowardly.
Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servantsโ quarters and leaves the sumptuous rooms empty.
Have patience with the quarrelsomeness of the stupid. It is not easy to comprehend that one does not comprehend.