Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself.
For what is life but a play in which everyone acts a part until the curtain comes down?
I am a lover of liberty. I will not and I cannot serve a party.
In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.
It is at the very sources that one extracts pure doctrine.
No man is wise at all times, or is without his blind side.
The entire spiritual life consists in this: That we gradually turn from those things whose appearance is deceptive to those things that are real.
The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
The worst evil is hardness of heart. Those who do not repent, who deliberately remain in their habits of sin, have the the most to fear.
There is no beast more savage and dangerous than a human being who is swept along by the passions of ambition, greed, anger, envy, extravagance, and sensuality.
This world, the whole of the planet called earth, is the common country of all who live and breathe upon it.
You must acquire the best knowledge first...; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn.