Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to that path which nature has marked out for him.

What sort of God would it be, who only pushed from without.

With knowledge grows doubt.

It makes no good to point the failures out without showing at the same time the remedy to address them.

No matter what one says, you can recognize only those matters that are equal to you. Only rulers who possess extraordinary abilities will recognize and esteem properly extraordinary abilities in their subjects and servants.

Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.