If we pursue our habit of eating animals, and if our neighbour follows a similar path, will we need to go to war against our neighbour to secure greater pasturage, because ours will not be enough to sustain us, and our neighbour will have a similar need to wage war on us for the same reason.

Those who want the fewest things are nearest to the gods.

If you will be guided by me, you will make little account of Socrates, and much more of truth.

The more I learn, the less I realize I know.

Malice drinketh up the greater part of its own poison.

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.

I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another.