He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.
Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass?
The man who thinks he knows does not yet know what knowing is
Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly.
Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.
We are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches and abandon the trunk and body.