Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.

If we are to have any hope for the future, those who have lanterns must pass them on to others.

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.

You get to know someone better by playing for an hour than by talking for a year.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

The object of knowledge is what exists and its function to know about reality.

The cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole. No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul. Let no one persuade you to cure the head until he has first given you his soul to be cured, for this is the great error of our day, that physicians first separate the soul from the body.