“Intelligent people are never settle, they always try to improve themselves, for this they will be the only ones ready to accept even uncomfortable truths.”

“I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.”

“A philosopher may try to prove the truth of something he believed before he was a philosopher, but even if he succeeds, his belief never regain the untroubled character, and the settled place in his mind, which it had at first.”

“To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.”

“People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher and better than themselves.”

“… because people who talk about their dreams are actually trying to tell you things about themselves they'd never admit in normal conversation. It's a way for people to be honest without telling the truth.”

“See, they say, how they love one another, for themselves are animated by mutual hatred; how they are ready even to die for one another, for they themselves will sooner put to death.”
Vide, inquiunt, ut invicem se diligant; ipsi enim invicem oderunt: et ut pro alterutro mori sint parati; ipsi enim ad occidendum alterutrum paratiores erunt.

“The dead may speak the truth only, even when it discredits themselves.”

“We never have a full demonstration, although there is always an underlying reason for the truth, even if it is only perfectly understood by God, who alone penetrated the infinite series in one stroke of the mind.”

“I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child.”