We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we would wish them to be.

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realised joy could be.

The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.

Never to read another book that was born and baptized (with ink) at the same time.

The real question is: How much truth can I stand?

Christianity is Platonism for the people.

Can an ass be tragic?--To perish under a burden that one can neither bear nor cast off? The case of the philosopher.