-after the split between Anarchists and Marxists in 1872” 

“A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.” 

“Lord takes care of babes, fools, and the United States.” 

“Verfallen wir nicht in den Fehler, bei jedem Andersmeinenden entweder an seinem Verständnis oder an seinem guten Willen zu zweifeln.” 

“But afterwards there occurred violent earthquakes and floods; and in a single day and night of misfortune all your warlike men in a body sank into the earth, and the island of Atlantis in like manner disappeared in the depths of the sea.” 

“... when someone sees a soul disturbed and unable to see something, he won't laugh mindlessly, but he'll take into consideration whether it has come from a brighter life and is dimmed through not having yet become accustomed to the dark or whether it has come from greater ignorance into greater light and is dazzled by the increased brillance.” 

“…it’s better in fact to be guilty of manslaughter than of fraud about what is fair and just.” 

“Calligraphy is a geometry of the soul which manifests itself physically.”

“And I understood then that I was a fool when I told you I would take my turn in singing the honours of Love, and admitted I was terribly clever in love affairs, whereas it seems I really had no idea how a eulogy ought to be made. For I was stupid enough to think that we ought to speak the truth about each person eulogised, and to make this the foundation, and from these truths to choose the most beautiful things and arrange them in the most elegant way; and I was quite proud to think how well I should speak, because I believed that I knew the truth.” 

“Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.” 

“Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.” 

“Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.” 

“When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.” 

“When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them then he is always stirring up some wary or other in order that the people may require a leader.” 

“All is flux, nothing stays still” 

“How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?” 

“And so, when a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something wonderful happens: the two are struck from their senses by love, by a sense of belonging to one another, and by desire, and they don't want to be separated from one another, not even for a moment.” 

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

“There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.” 

“I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think I have.” 

“Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.” 

“Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.” 

“How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state? ” 

“...and when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight, as I may say, even for a moment...”