"Here again you confuse and mix everything up in your usual way."

"I consider as lovers of books not those who keep their books hidden in their store-chests and never handle them, but …"

"Animals only follow their natural instincts; but man, unless he has experienced the influence of learning and philoso…"

"No Man is wise at all Times, or is without his blind Side."

"You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will late…"

"Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself."

"Ad Graecas literas totum animum applicui; statimque ut pecuniam accepero, Graecos primum autores, deinde vestes emam."

"In regione caecorum rex est luscus."

"The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war."

"Meanwhile rational Europe, trying to keep inflammable passion and mad peasant blood within decent bounds, had lost it…"