The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.

It is not the purpose of a juryman's office to give justice as a favor to whoever seems good to him, but to judge according to law, and this he has sworn to do.

If I can assign names as well as pictures to objects, the right assignment of them we may call truth, and the wrong assignment of them falsehood.

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.

I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.

The only thing I know is that I know nothing

You never know a line is crooked unless you have a straight one to put next to it.