Greatness doesn’t come from what you do, but from who you are.
The body is the soul's house. Shouldn't we therefore take care of our house so that it doesn't fall into ruin?
Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle. by Saint Philo of Alexandria
Learning is by nature curiosity. . . prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained.
It would be a sign of great simplicity to think that the world was created in six days, or indeed at all in time; [. . . ] Time is a thing posterior to the world. Therefore it would be correctly said that the world was not created in time, but that time had its existence in consequence of the world. For it is the motion of the heaven that has displayed the nature of time.
How then, is it natural that the mind of man, being so small as contained in such narrow spaces as a brain or a heart, should have room for all the vastness of sky and Universe?
Character is the backbone of our human culture. Music is the flowering of character.
There is no King, who, with sufficient force, is not always ready to make himself absolute.
Novels help us to resist the temptation to think of the past as deficient.
We should also start taking care of the future, not just the heritage.