Then is what you see through this window onto the world so lovely that you have no desire whatsoever to look out through any other window, and that you even make an attempt to prevent others from doing so?

The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power.

The inclination to self-depreciation, to freely accepting being robbed, being duped, and being swindled, could be the modesty of a god among men.

There is nothing that has caused me to meditate more on Plato's secrecy and sphinx-like nature, than the happily preserved petit fait that under the pillow of his death-bed there was found no 'Bible,' nor anything Egyptian, Pythagorean, or Platonic - but a book of Aristophanes. How could even Plato have endured life - a Greek life which he repudiated - without an Aristophanes!

The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen.

No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.

Pain makes hens and poets cackle.