“Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.”

The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

Dogs wait for us faithfully.

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

But I must at the very beginning lay down this principle – friendship can only exist between good men.

Not for ourselves alone are we born.

Is not prosperity robbed of half its value if you have no one to share your joy?

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.

The fruit of too much liberty is slavery.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable.

You are free to choose, but the choices you make today will determine what you have, be, and do in the tomorrow of your life.

The only security of all is in a free press.

I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people’s minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.

When one is not expressing himself, he is not free.

In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.

Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.