“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.”
“Concerning the gods, I have no means of knowing whether they exist or not.”
“Man is the measure of all things.”
“Rarely do great beauty and virtue dwell together.”
“The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.”
“To understand is to invent.”
“The principal goal of education is to create men and women who are capable of doing new things.”
“I am one, none, and a hundred thousand.”
“It is so, if you think so.”
“Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance.”
“And the days are not full enough; and the nights are not full enough.”
“Literature is news that stays news.”
“True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body.”
“No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.”
“Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.”
“Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.”
“The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”
“I hate writing, I love having written.”