It is not enough to prove something, one also has to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man of knowledge should learn how to speak his wisdom: and often in such a way that it sounds like folly!

Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.

There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.

When you have got a thing where you want, it is a good thing to leave it where it is.

The man who stands firm in order to protect a sand-castle can never be relied upon; for he has given away his common sense.

Joan was a being so uplifted from the ordinary run of mankind that she finds no equal in a thousand years. She embodied the natural goodness and valour of the human race in unexampled perfection. Unconquerable courage, infinite compassion, the virtue of the simple, the wisdom of the just, shone forth in her. She glorifies as she freed the soil from which she sprang.