If virtue goes to sleep, it will be more vigorous when it awakes.

In compassionate men, severity is a virtue.

I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason - as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal.

What is the difference between someone who is convinced and one who is deceived? None, if he is well deceived.

The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in heart and head, but on the other hand, we have become through the development of humanity so tenderly suffering that we need the highest kind of means of salvation and consolation: whence arises the danger that man may bleed to death through the truth that he realises.

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

Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.