أكبر كارثة بالنسبة للنفوس الضعيفة الرقيقة أن تكون قد عرفت السعادة الكاملة مرة في حياتها - Romain Rolland

The true man of culture is not he who makes of himself and his ideal the center of the universe, but who looking around him sees, as in the sky the stream of the Milky Way, thousands of little flames which flow with his own; and who seeks neither to absorb them nor to impose upon them his own course, but to give himself the religious persuasion of their value and of the common source of the fire by which all alike are fed.

A hundred facts testify to how great an extent the East was mingled with Hellenic thought during the second century of our era.

how often', he said,'does a man ruin his disciples by remaining always with them.