We evaluate the services that anyone renders to us according to the value he puts on them, not according to the value they have for us.

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

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones but by extreme positions of the opposite kind.

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

Everything that has been is eternal: the sea will wash it up again.

If you are too weak to give yourselves your own law, then a tyrant shall lay his yoke upon you and say: "Obey! Clench your teeth and obey!" And all good and evil shall be drowned in obedience to him.

Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended.