"The roots of knowledge are bitter, but..." - Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Hatred is a settled anger.”

“The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.”

“Laws are inoperative in war”

“Every burned book enlightens the world.”

“People should always know better.”

“The admiral needs only one science, that of navigation. The general needs all the sciences.”

“A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself.”

“I stood willingly and gladly in the characters of everything - other people, trees, clouds. And this is what I learned, that the world's otherness is antidote to confusion - that standing within this otherness - the beauty and the mystery of the world, out in the fields or deep inside books - can re-dignify the worst-stung heart.”

“To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a link in a chain.”