No es que los oráculos hayan dejado de hablar, sino que los hombres han dejado de escucharlos. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Es una lástima que beber agua no sea pecado, clama un italiano, ¡qué bien sabría!

The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.

One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole tenor of his behavior must none the less betray the thinker, he must always be instructive, his way of judging a thing must even in the smallest matters be such that people can see what it will amount to when, quietly and self-collected, he puts this power to scholarly use.