An educator never says what he himself thinks, but only that which he thinks it is good for those whom he is educating to hear.

But this word will I say to my enemies: What is all manslaughter in comparison with what you have done to me!

Among the wealthy, generosity is often merely a kind of shyness.

If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good.

To learn from our enemies is the best pathway to loving them: for it makes us grateful to them.

The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.

Art is the great stimulus to life.