Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
