In order to be somebody you have to hold even your shadow in high regard.

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

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.

Among twelve apostles there must always be one who is as hard as stone, so that the new church may be built upon him.

It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that I am inclined to deny that any martyr has ever had anything to do with the truth at all.

A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.