The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

Maybe crying is a means of cleaning yourself out emotionally. Or maybe it's your last resort; the only way to express yourself when words fail, the same as when you were a baby and had no words.

...we are all inclined to ... direct our inquiry not by the matter itself, but by the views of our opponents; and, even when interrogating oneself, one pushes the inquiry only to the point at which one can no longer offer any opposition. Hence a good inquirer will be one who is ready in bringing forward the objections proper to the genus, and that he will be when he has gained an understanding of the differences.

One swallow does not make a spring, nor does one fine day.

Man's best friend is one who wishes well to the object of his wish for his sake, even if no one is to know of it.

There also appears to be another element in the soul, which, though irrational, yet in a manner participates in rational principle.