"Beauty is a natural superiority...." - Quote by Plato

“Every serious man in dealing with really serious subjects carefully avoids writing. ... There does not exist, nor will there ever exist, any writing of mine dealing with this subject.”

“Now nothing can be more important than that the work of a soldier should be well done.”

“You need some knowledge to recognize knowledge, so where does the first knowledge come from?”

“I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'”

“Everyone wants to understand art. Why don't we try to understand the song of a bird? Why do we love the night, the flowers, everything around us, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting, people think they have to understand.”

“When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.”

“Nature has granted the use of life like a loan, without fixing any day for repayment.”

“I have trouble with some books because I'm so much in agreement with them I'd rather just sit in the grass myself.”

“Be not disgusted, nor discouraged, nor dissatisfied, if thou dost not succeed in doing everything according to right principles; but when thou bast failed, return back again, and be content if the greater part of what thou doest is consistent with man's nature, and love this to which thou returnest”