A man's personality is matured only when he appropriates the truth, whether it is spoken by Balaam's ass or a sniggering wag or an apostle or an angel.

If a man cannot forget, he will never amount to much.

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

Truth is not introduced into the individual from without, but was within him all the time.

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.

Ulysses was not comely, but he was eloquent, Yet he fired two goddesses of the sea with love