The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.

In every party there is one person who, through his dotingly credulous enunciation of party principles, incites the other members to defection.

We forget our guilt when we have confessed it to another, but the other does not usually forget it.

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

The followers of a great man often put their eyes out, so that they may be the better able to sing his praise.

The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.