As for our pupils talk, let his virtue and his sense of right and wrong shine through it and have no guide but reason. Make him understand that confessing an error which he discovers in his own argument even when he alone has noticed it is an act of justice and integrity, which are the main qualities he pursues; stubbornness and rancour are vulgar qualities, visible in common souls whereas to think again, to change one's mind and to give up a bad case on the heat of the argument are rare qualities showing strength and wisdom.

Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.

I determine nothing; I do not comprehend things; I suspend judgment; I examine.

Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it? .. But in truth I know nothing about the philosophy of education except this: that the greatest and the most important difficulty known to human learning seems to lie in that area which treats how to bring up children and how to educate them.

All permanent decisions are made in a temporary state of mind.

The premeditation of death is the premeditation of liberty; he who has learnt to die has forgot to serve.

Why do people respect the package rather than the man?