“Xenophanes speaks thus:
And no man knows distinctly anything,
And no man ever will.”

“The man who speaks and writes about art should refrain from censuring or pontificating. He will thus avoid doing anything foolish, for in the presence of primordial depth all art is but dream and nature.”

“Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody. ”

“Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.”

“Forgive me, that was the soldier speaking. Now this is the man speaking again. And the man is more than the soldier. I can bear anything. Death is a more solemn thing than all the earthly trash.”

“A pity that poets have used symbol and metaphor and no man learned anything from them for their speaking in figures”

“Therefore the moral man, even when he is not doing anything, is serious; and, even when he does not speak, is truthful.”

“If you become superhuman, if a woman starts to grow a beard or if a man starts to speak with an effeminate voice, they will not have anything to do with it.”

“A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself.”

“To speak well of a base man is much the same as speaking ill of a good man.”