"For as the eyes of bats are..." - Quote by Aristotle

“It is clear, then, that the earth must be at the centre and immovable, not only for the reasons already given, but also because heavy bodies forcibly thrown quite straight upward return to the point from which they started, even if they are thrown to an infinite distance. From these considerations then it is clear that the earth does not move and does not lie elsewhere than at the centre.”

“The law does not expressly permit suicide, and what it does not permit it forbids.”

“Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good.”

“How did reason come into the world? As is fitting, in an irrational manner, by accident. One will have to guess at it as at a riddle.”

“All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?”

“Everything happens for a reason and a purpose, and it serves you.”

“I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.”

“[W]hat counts is that one perceives excellence and dares to give it expression, which sounds little but is in fact a great deal.”

“Things ain't what they used to be and never were.”