“The fruit of too much liberty is slavery.”

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.

Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.

In times of war, the law falls silent.

A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

What can be more delightful than to have some one to whom you can say everything with the same absolute confidence as to yourself?

Life is nothing without friendship.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.

To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.

No power on earth, if it labours beneath the burden of fear, can possibly be strong enough to survive.

Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

Freedom begins when you start praying bold prayers.

Each of us inevitable; Each of us limitless-each of us with his or her right upon the earth.

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

A society that puts equality – in the sense of equality of outcome – ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom.

It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.

Only the educated are free.

The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.