In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.
For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.
Philosophy may describe unreasoning, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.
We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.
Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one.
Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.