It is old age rather than death that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will...
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.
Nothing is so threatening to conventional values as a man who does not...
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is...
No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why...
