Take a look around, then, and see that none of the uninitiated are listening. Now by the uninitiated I mean the people who believe in nothing but what they can grasp in their hands, and who will not allow that action or generation or anything invisible can have real existence.

The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don't know...How, then, can the dog be anything other than a lover of learning since it defines what's its own and what's alien.

It is through geometry that one purifies the eye of the soul.

For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a fortune value their money, not merely for its uses, like other persons, but because it is their own production. This makes them moreover disagreeable companions, because they will praise nothing but riches.

The learning and knowledge that we have,is,at the most,but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

If there is a good and wise God, then there also exists a progress of humanity toward perfection.

When you swear, swear seriously and solemnly, but at the same time with a smile, for a smile is the twin sister of seriousness.