If one mistreats citizens of foreign countries, one infringes upon one's duty toward one's own subjects; for thus one exposes themto the law of retribution.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

We're only really thinking when we can't think out fully what we are really thinking about!

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it.

The mob has nothing to lose, everything to gain.

On every mountain height is rest.