To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse.

As wolves love lambs so lovers love their loves.

A dog has the soul of a philosopher.

The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

'But the man who is ready to taste every form of knowledge, is glad to learn and never satisfied - he's the man who deserves to be called a philosopher, isn't he?'

What is at issue is the conversion of the mind from the twilight of error to the truth, that climb up into the real world which we shall call true philosophy.