One of the sophisms of Chrysippus was, "If you have not lost a thing, you have it. Diogenes Laërtius
The masses have never believed in sophisms taught by economists, uttered more to confirm exploiters in their rights than to convert exploited! Peter Kropotkin
A man is not more entitled to be "received in good society," or at least to wish to be, because he is more intelligent and cultivated. This is one of those sophisms that the vanity of intelligent people picks up in the arsenal of their intelligence to justify their basest inclinations. Marcel Proust
The underlying philosophy of segregation is diametrically opposed to the underlying philosophy of democracy and Christianity and all the sophisms of the logicians cannot make them lie down together. Martin Luther King Jr.
I replace melancholy by courage, doubt by certainty, despair by hope, malice by good, complaints by duty, scepticism by faith, sophisms by cool equanimity and pride by modesty. Comte de Lautreamont