In the winter, warmth stands for all virtue.
The friend must be like money, that before you need it, the value is known.
People learn more on their own rather than being force fed.
The cure of many diseases remains unknown to the physicians of Hellos (Greece) because they do not study the whole person.
Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent and honorable in their intercourse with all men, bearing easily and good naturedly what is offensive in others and being as agreeable and reasonable to their associates as is humanly possible to be. . . those who hold their pleasures always under control and are not ultimately overcome by their misfortunes. . . those who are not spoiled by their successes, who do not desert their true selves but hold their ground steadfastly as wise and sober - minded men.
Improve yourself by other men's writings thus attaining effortlessly what they acquired through great difficulty.
There is no greater magnificence than to defeat oneself. That is the magnificence.
To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair inevitable.
Nobody loved her and she wouldn’t have liked it if they had, she considered love a serious disability.
I think that things are poetic when they don't have a boundary. Without rules. My life is poetic.
Beautiful sights arouse feelings of love, and contrary sights bring feelings of disgrace and hate. And the emotions of the soul and spirit bring something additional to the body itself, which exists under the control of the soul and the direction of the spirit.