A house that has a library in it has a soul.
A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.
Writing is the geometry of the soul.
Books are immortal sons defying their sires.
For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible. But there, arriving, she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.
I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think I have.
The first and best victory is to conquer self.
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
The man who finds that in the course of his life he has done a lot of wrong often wakes up at night in terror, like a child with a nightmare, and his life is full of foreboding: but the man who is conscious of no wrongdoing is filled with cheerfulness and with the comfort of old age.
No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
He was a wise man who invented God.
Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?
How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?
Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.