“When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.”

“There is no worse evil than a bad woman; and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one.”

“Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.”

“If God is omnipotent, omniscient and wholly good, whence evil? If God wills to prevent evil but cannot, then He is not omnipotent. If He can prevent evil but does not, then he is not good. In either case he is not God.”

“We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth— we call it life. We know no other.”

“Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.”

“A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.”