Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm.

All human life is sunk deep in untruth; the individual cannot pull it out of this well without growing profoundly annoyed with his entire past, without finding his present motives (like honor) senseless, and without opposing scorn and disdain to the passions that urge one on to the future and to the happiness in it.

Woman is essentially unpeaceful, like the cat, however well she may have trained herself to present an appearance of peace.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood.

All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.

Socrates and Plato are right: whatever man does he always does well, that is, he does that which seems to him good (useful) according to the degree of his intellect, the particular standard of his reasonableness.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.