Scholars who incessantly contemplate acquiring strength and knowledge should also consider it their moral duty to impart knowledge to the ignorant, so that they can develop their mental faculties. This would automatically lead to the latter’s self-development and spiritual progress.
When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
-Mark Twain
The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
-Carl Gustav Jung
How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
-Anaïs Nin
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete.
-Okakura Kakuzō
Those who think religion is about belief don’t understand religion, and don’t understand belief.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
-Henry David Thoreau
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
-W. H. Auden
