"As a traveller leaves the sarai, as the bird flies off the branch, as leaves leave the branch in autumn, as the sun h…"

"Then there is a very small remnant … of worthy disciples of philosophy: perchance some noble nature, brought up under…"

"And with how free an eye doth he look down"

"My third maxim was to endeavor always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and change my desires rather than the or…"

"I look down from my height on nations And they become ashes before me."

"A man is intellectual in proportion as he can make an object of every sensation, perception and intuition; so long as…"

"The Ancients … subjected themselves to a fierce discipline of detachment from public opinion. Although they inevitabl…"

"The First Truth is an assertion that all manifested life is sorrow, unless man knows how to live it... the Cause of S…"

"Goethe, … who lived through the struggle against Napoleon, was once asked how he had managed to exist during the days…"

"Nothing is rarer than giving no importance to things that have none."