“But Above all things truth beareth away the victory.”

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.

He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.

At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

Love is a serious mental disease.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.

Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?

Nothing beautiful without struggle.

Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

All learning has an emotional base.

Character is simply habit long continued.

Humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces.

See the truth. Tell the truth.

And it implies that if we respect truth, we must search for it by persistently searching for our errors: by indefatigable rational criticism, and self-criticism.

Truth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word.

In Paradise, everyone speaks the truth. That is what makes it Paradise. Tell the truth. Or, at least, don’t lie.

Dare, instead, to be dangerous. Dare to be truthful. Dare to articulate yourself, and express (or at least become aware of) what would really justify your life.

Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.

The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

As a Christian, I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice.