
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.
Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.

In the life of a man, his time is but a moment…his sense, a dim rushlight. All that is body is as coursing waters…all that is of the soul, as dreams, and vapors.

When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don’t have in my mouth.