Several classical sayings that one likes to repeat had quite a different meaning from the ones later times attributed to them.

All one needs to do is declare oneself free and one will immediately feel dependent. If you dare to declare yourself dependent, you feel independent.

Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about.

A man doesn't learn to understand anything unless he loves it.

Could we perfect human nature, we might also expect a perfect state of things.

I am amazed to see how deliberately I have entangled myself step by step. To have seen my position so clearly, and yet to have acted so like a child!

He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.