I am a fool, but I know I'm a fool and that makes me smarter than you.

You are wrong, sir, if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or death; he should look to this only in his actions, whether what he does is right or wrong, whether he is acting like a good or a bad man.

The perfect human being is all human beings put together, it is a collective, it is all of us together that make perfection.

The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.

To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. For it is to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not even turn out to be the greatest blessings of human beings. And yet people fear it as if they knew for certain it is the greatest evil.

The uninitiated are those who believe in nothing except what they can grasp in their hands, and who deny the existence of all that is invisible.

A disorderly mob is no more an army than a heap of building materials is a house