People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.

Most people do not take heed of the things they encounter, nor do they grasp them even when they have learned about them, although they suppose they do.

He does not weep who does not see.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they see nothing but sea.

It is we that are blind, not Fortune.