His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.