Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge of having Majority on its side.

Kindness is the golden thread that holds society together.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Not all that is presented to us as history has really happened; and what really happened did not actually happen the way it is presented to us; moreover, what really happened is only a small part of all that happened. Everything in history remains uncertain, the largest events as well as the smallest occurrence.

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.