"Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people."

"I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, do not fancy I …"

"And so the probable outcome of too much freedom is only too much slavery in the individual and the state. Probably, then, tyranny develops out of no other constitution than democracy—from the height o…"

"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for."

"For fear of death is indeed nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not; for it is to think one knows what one does not know."