If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.

No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.