By means of beauty all beautiful things become beautiful.

It is better to make a mistake with full force of your being than to carefully avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit.

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.

We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

True wisdom lies in one's confession about the limits of one's knowledge.

It is better to be at odds with the whole world than, being one, to be at odds with myself.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice.