Wherever You Encounter Truth, Look Upon It

Anything Which Causes Trouble Has Special Merit In Their Eyes.

Time Takes Away The Grief Of Men.

I Have Turned My Entire Attention To Greek. The First Thing I Shall Do, As Soon As The Money Arrives, Is To Buy Some Greek Authors; After That, I Shall Buy Clothes.

Everybody Hates A Prodigy, Detests An Old Head On Young Shoulders.

As An Example Of Just How Useless These Philosophers Are For Any Practice In Life There Is Socrates Himself, The One And Only Wise Man, According To The Delphic Oracle. Whenever He Tried To Do Anything In Public He Had To Break Off Amid General Laughter. While He Was Philosophizing About Clouds And Ideas, Measuring A Flea's Foot And Marveling At A Midge's Humming, He Learned Nothing About The Affairs Of Ordinary Life.