No man is liberated from fear who dare not see his place in the world as it is; no man can achieve the greatness of which he is capable until he has allowed himself to see his own littleness.

The legacy of Greece to Western philosophy is Western philosophy.

Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery, and in such a world hopes could only be irrational.

Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens.

The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of their own ignorance.

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from.