Nothing is so well learned as that which is discovered.

When a woman is allowed to become a man's equal, she becomes his superior.

When you propose ridiculous things to believe, too many men will choose to believe nothing at all.

'Wars, factions, and fighting,' said Socrates as he looked forward from his last hour, 'have no other origin than this same body and its lusts... We must set the soul free from it; we must behold things as they are. And having thus got rid of the foolishness of the body, we shall be pure and hold converse with the pure, and shall in our own selves have complete knowledge of the Incorruptible which is, I take it, no other than the very truth.

I only know how little I know

Knowledge is our ultimate good.

I believe that we cannot live better than in seeking to become better, nor more agreeably than having a clear conscience.