“Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.”

“There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This fi...”

“There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.”

“Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.”

“He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.”

“It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.”

“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa”

“At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.”

“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”

“Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.”

“Without form, communication stops... without form, you have everybody burbling on to themselves, whenever and however, things that no one else can understand and - rightly - no one else is interest...”

“A piazza is not a plaza. The plaza is the theme park of the piazza the plaza is the commercial version. A piazza is an empty space with no function. This is what Europeans understand. ”

“One must not trifle with love.”

“Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.”

“In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.”