“Men that love wisdom must be acquainted with very many things indeed.”

And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep.

And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep.

Bigotry is the sacred disease.

If you do not hope, you will not win that which is not hoped for, since it is unattainable and inaccessible.

Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.

To get everything you want is not a good thing. Disease makes health seem sweet. Hunger leads to the appreciation of being full-fed. Tiredness creates the enjoyment of resting.

The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.

When men dream, each has his own world. When they are awake, they have a common world.

It is harder to fight pleasure than to fight emotion.

Applicants for wisdom do what I have done: inquire within

All things come out of the one, and the one out of all things.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world.

The poet was a fool who wanted no conflict among us, gods or people. Harmony needs low and high, as progeny needs man and woman.

It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.

It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.

Promise me one thing: don’t take me home until I’m drunk – very drunk indeed.

Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.

Perfect love is rare indeed.

To remain unknown in this modern world: that, indeed, is real power.

I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.

Our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed.

When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.