Llevad a un sabio a un banquete y lo perturbará o con lúgubre silencio o con preguntas fastidiosas. Introducidle en un baile y os parecerá, danzando,… - Erasmus

It is not the office that brings honour to the man, but the man to the office.

I hear the philosophers opposing it and saying 'tis a miserable thing for a man to be foolish, to err, mistake, and know nothing truly. Nay rather, this is to be a man. And why they should call it miserable, I see no reason; forasmuch as we are so born, so bred, so instructed, nay such is the common condition of us all.

For anyone who loves intensely lives not in himself but in the object of his love, and the further he can move out of himself into his love, the happier he is.