wisdom Quotes

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.

Love is not consolation. It is light.

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.