Instinct is the nose of the mind.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

Night is the blotting paper of many sorrows.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

Thedifficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather toknow it.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Adversityis the foundation of virtue.

In all superstitions wise men follow fools.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Between friends there is no need of Justice.

Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.