Full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

It is not in our stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

The Eyes are the window to your soul

What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

...curiosity had the same impact on him as caffeine... (Commissario Soneri)

To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.

The attainment of truth is then the function of both the intellectual parts of the soul. Therefore their respective virtues are those dispositions which will best qualify them to attain truth.

Suffering is only suffering if it’s done in silence, in solitude. Pain experienced in public, in view of loving millions, was no longer pain. It was communion.

Necessitous men are not free men.

My people will sleep for one hundred years, but when they awake, it will be the artists who give them their spirit back.

Life, alas, is very drear. Up with the glass! Down with the beer!

[After Vietnam] the type of interventions that are carried out are designed so as not to elicit public reactions.

The calendar is intolerable to all wisdom, the horror of all astronomy, and a laughing stock from a mathematician's point of view.

All we want is to be treated like human beings, and not to be patronized, or experimented on like guinea pigs.