“The longest part of the journey is said to be the passing of the gate.”

He who flees at the right time can fight again.

It is necessary for men to be deceived in religion.

Nature made the fields and man the cities.

It is for the good of states that men should be deluded by religion.

What, if as said, man is a bubble.

What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

For my eightieth year warns me to pack up my baggage before I leave life.

Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities.

Divine nature gave us fields, human skill built our cities.

He who overlooks a healthy spot for the site of his house is mad and ought to be handed over to the care of his relations and friends.

Not all who own a harp are harpers.

The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine.

Only through Beauty’s morning-gate, dost thou penetrate the land of knowledge.

Sometimes I feel like I’m actually on the wrong planet. It’s great when I’m in my garden, but the minute I go out the gate I think, ‘What the hell am I doing here?

The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.

I like celluloid, I like film, I like the way that when a movie is projected it sort of breathes a little in the gate. That’s the magic of it to me.

The kingdom of God is just behind the darkness of closed eyes, and the first gate that opens to it is your peace.

I want to risk hitting my head on the ceiling of my talent. I want to really test it out and say: O.K., you’re not that good. You just reached the level here. I don’t ever want to fail, but I want to risk failure every time out of the gate.

The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.

Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.