“There's a good reason why nobody studies history. It just teaches you too much.”

“I’m not accusing you of anything, but we both have studied too much history to ignore coincidence.”

“Nobody observes you and studies you as much as your enemy.”

“Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.”

“No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free.”

“Systematic errors of theory can seldom be discovered by direct attack; it is easier to uncover them by studying how and why physical theory took the path it did. That is why a clue to the future can sometimes be found in the past, and this is my reason for studying the history of atomism.”

“In their last ditch, the royalists object that this all too bloodless and practical; that people need and want the element of magic and fantasy. Nobody wants life to be charmless. But the element of fantasy and magic is as primitive as it is authentic, and there are good reasons why it should not come from the state.”

“Nobody cares much whether you write or not. You just have to do it”

“Stoicism will teach you to smile at pain and frown at the sight of too much pleasure.”

“Nobody is too good or too bad to qualify for God’s grace.”