Light seeking light doth light of light beguile.

William Shakespeare · Love’s Labour’s Lost (1594–1595), I, i

If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked! If to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know is damned.

William Shakespeare · The source reads: “If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked! If to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know is damned: if to be fat be to be hated, then Pharaoh’s lean kine are to be loved.” · King Henry IV, Part I, II, iv

Small things make base men proud.

William Shakespeare · King Henry VI, Part II (1590–1591), IV, i

Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.

William Shakespeare · As You Like It (1599–1600), I, iii

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All men by nature desire to know.

Aristotle · The opening sentence of the Metaphysics, in W. D. Ross's standard English translation.

So it is in travelling; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

Samuel Johnson

The greatest happiness for the thinking man is to have fathomed the fathomable, and to quietly revere the unfathomable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · From Goethe's maxims.

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“Light seeking light doth light of light beguile.”

“If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked! If to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know is damned.”

“Small things make base men proud.”

“Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.”

“All men by nature desire to know.”

“So it is in travelling; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.”

“The greatest happiness for the thinking man is to have fathomed the fathomable, and to quietly revere the unfathomable.”