Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed.

O my brothers, am I then cruel? But I say: that which is falling should also be pushed!

The ability to suffer is a small matter - weak women and even slaves can acheive virtuosity in that.

The philosopher caught in the nets of language.

Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and convincing.

History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their accustomed and indisputable principles.

Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.