Quotes

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

It is sweet, when on the great sea the winds trouble the waters, to watch from land another’s great struggle.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.

And in every beginning there dwells a magic.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Like the generations of leaves, so are those of men.

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

Crito, we owe a cock to Asclepius. Pay it and do not neglect it.