We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

We obtain better knowledge of a person during one hour's play and games than by conversing with him for a whole year

Man is the plumeless genus of bipeds, birds are the plumed.

To escape from evil we must be made as far as possible like God; and the resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise.

Man never legislates,but destinies and accidents,happening in all sorts of ways,legislate in all sorts of ways.

Now nothing can be more important than that the work of a soldier should be well done.

Even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route.