You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it
How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.
If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.
I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die.
It is a very dangerous thing to know oneโs friends.