Every serious man in dealing with really serious subjects carefully avoids writing. ... There does not exist, nor will there ever exist, any writing of mine dealing with this subject.

...in every man there is an eye of the soul, which...is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes, for by it alone is truth seen.

We ought to live sacrificing, and singing, and dancing.

When a person supposes that he knows, and does not know; this appears to be the great source of all the errors of the intellect.

Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.

The judge should not be young, he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and long observation of the nature of evil in others.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.