1. "All the passions seek whatever nourishes them: fear loves the idea of danger."
2. “Conversation becomes intolerable when you are with men whose brain is full of boxes where everything is stowed away in order and nothing external can enter. Let us bear hospitable hearts and minds.”
3. ”Imagination is the eye of the soul.”
4. ”It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.”
5. “Justice is truth in action.“
6. “Misery is almost always the result of thinking.”
7. ”Never cut what you can untie.”
8. ”Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.”
9. ”The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.”
10. “To teach is to learn twice.
11. “We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.”
12. “Wisdom is a science by which we discriminate between things spiritually good and evil. It is the science of sciences, for alone, it can understand the value, the true price, the real uses, the danger, and the potentialities of the soul.”
13. “Words, like eyeglasses, blur everything that they do not make more clear.”
14. “You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.”
