One is punished best for one's virtues.

If you are considering marriage, ask yourself one question: Will I still enjoy talking with her when I'm old?

When we have a great goal we are superior even to justice, not merely to our deeds and our judges.

The charm of knowledge would be small indeed, were it not that there is so much shame to be overcome on the way to it.

The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen.

The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.

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