He who does not oppose evil......commands it to be done.
He who thinks little errs much…
A poet knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Our life is made by the death of others.
Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
He who wishes to be rich within a day, will be hanged within a year.
My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.
Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.
He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.
He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.
I awoke only to find that the rest of the world was still asleep.
The mind that engages in subjects of too great variety becomes confused and weakened.
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.
The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.
Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitudes.
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.