I admire the courage and wisdom of Socrates in everything he did, said--and did not say.

It is not to everyone's taste that truth should be pronounced pleasant. But at least let no one believe that error becomes truth when it is pronounced unpleasant.

What I understand by "philosopher": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger.

Youth is an unpleasant period; for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever.

Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.

What doesn't kill you make you stronger.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.