Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

It behooves those who take the young to task to leave them room for excuse, lest they drive them to be hardened by too much rebuke.

Man was not made for himself alone

There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen.

It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be.

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

Just as bees make honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so do the wise profit from the most difficult of experiences.