We are praised or blamed, as the one or the other may be expedient, for displaying to advantage our power of discernment.

Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes.

Mathematics is merely the means to a general and ultimate knowledge of man.

People who, out of an inborn moderation, leave every glass standing only half-emptied refuse to admit that everything in the world has its sediments and dregs.

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

Warfare is the father of all good things, it is also the father of good prose!

Without the errors involved in the assumptions of ethics, man would have remained an animal. Thus has he taken himself as something higher and imposed rigid laws upon himself.