Life is no brief candle- it's a splendid torch!

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

A fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.

He who is overcautious will accomplish little.

Afanatic is a person who can’t change his mind and won’t change.

Youcan't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come toyou. You have to go to them sometimes.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

The majority of mankind always has been and always will be composed of imbeciles.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to