Wise Quotes

I already love in you your beauty, but I am only beginning to love in you that which is eternal and ever precious – your heart, your soul. Beauty one could get to know and fall in love with in one hour and cease to love it as speedily; but the soul one must learn to know. Believe me, nothing on earth is given without labour, even love, the most beautiful and natural of feelings. <...> But the more difficult the labour and hardship, the higher the reward.

We learn [such literature] not for life but for classtime.

Non vitae sed scholae discimus.

For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.