I saw this world-spirit riding out through the city on reconnaissance.

What history teaches is that peoples and governments have never learned anything from it.

The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the falling of dusk.

What is rational is real; and what is real is rational.

The true is the whole.

Exile is not an evil.

-- Gaius Musonius Rufus

Cato, while he lived, lived in such a way that he lacked nothing — so long as he was free to die.

-- Cato the Younger

If I were not Alexander, I would wish to be Diogenes.

-- Diogenes of Sinope

Stand a little out of my sunlight.

-- Diogenes of Sinope

What frees you from slavery is not wealth but needing nothing.

-- Crates of Thebes

In the northern darkness there is a fish called Kun. The Kun is so vast one cannot tell how many thousands of li it spans. It transforms into a bird called Peng. The back of the Peng is so vast one cannot tell how many thousands of li it spans.

-- Zhuang Zhou