In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Freedom is a man’s natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.