A just thinker will allow full swing to his scepticism. I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.... We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.

At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish.

Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.

If you take in a lie, you must take in all that belongs to it.

We do not yet trust the unknown power of thoughts.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.