Wisdom Sayings

Let those who for a long time, have been robbers, now become knights.

Take care that none of them escapes.

I have taken England with both my hands.

Well, what do you think? Am I he?

I sell mirrors in the city of the blind.

Beware the man of a single book.

I lift my goblet to melt away sorrow, but sorrow continues in sorrow.

How I long to lie down in some gully, alone and untrammeled! But I laugh at myself: an old madman growing older, growing madder.

People who do not get into scrapes are a great deal less interesting than those who do.

You will not know a detail of the mysteries of existence, as long as you are not disoriented in the circle of existence.

Of smale houndes hadde she, that she fedde / With rosted flessh, or milk and wastel-breed.

It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.

Religious truth is captive in a small number of little manuscripts which guard the common treasures, instead of expanding them.

Medicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from health.

What is easiest is best in calculation.

Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain.

Traveling - it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.

The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who has the disease.

Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

Oh, many a Cup of this forbidden Wine Must drown the memory of that insolence!