Watch a man at play for an hour and you can learn more about him than in talking to him for a year.

Madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human.

The qualities which a man seeks in his beloved are those characteristics of his own soul, whether he knows it or not.

He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is too soft, to effeminate. The ideal citizen is the scholar athlete, the man of thought and the man of action.

I would have you imagine, then, that there exists in the mind of man a block of wax... and that we remember and know what is imprinted as long as the image lasts; but when the image is effaced, or cannot be taken, then we forget or do not know.

And we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and driven doctors to invent names for our diseases.

Renouncing the honors at which the world aims, I desire only to know the truth... and to the maximum of power, I exhort all other men to do the same.