All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.
Friendship is two souls inhabiting one body.
Of governments there are said to be only two forms - democracy and oligarchy. For aristocracy is considered to be a kind of oligarchy, as being the rule of a few, and the so-called constitutional government to be really a democracy.
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.