I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can.
We must not attach knowledge to the mind; we have to incorporate it there.
I would rather be an expert on me than on Cicero.
Children’s playthings are not sports and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.
A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens.
There is no such thing as an altogether ugly woman – nor altogether beautiful.
For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.
An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
I am myself the matter of my book.
No man is a hero to his own valet.
Our religion is made to eradicate vices, instead it encourages them, covers them, and nurtures them.
The clatter of arms drowns out the voice of law.
Peoples nurtured on freedom and self-government judge any other form of polity to be deformed and unnatural. Those who are used to monarchy do the same .
There is a huge gulf between the man who follows the conventions and laws of his country and the man who sets out to regiment them and to change them.
How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!
Give me the provisions and whole apparatus of a kitchen, and I would starve.
Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover; he only beats the water for another’s net.
It is a human tendency “to measure truth and error by our capacity.”
One should always have one’s boots on and be ready to leave.