Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, others the art of living well.

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.

All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.