By means of beauty all beautiful things become beautiful.

I call that man idle who might be better employed.

The hardest task needs the lightest hand or else its completion will not lead to freedom but to a tyranny much worse than the one it replaces.

The partisan when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.

The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.

Men of Athens, I honor and love you; but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and strength I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy.

Laws are not made for the good.