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.

Of all the things which a man has, next to the gods his soul is the most divine and most truly his own.

Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.

The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

As there are misanthropists or haters of men, so also are there misologists, or haters of ideas.

Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow... even if that someone is yourself!