The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
Docility is the observable half of reason.
There is no right government except good government.
Better not be a hero than work oneself up into heroism by shouting lies.
The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.
It is the acme of life to understand life.