You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Just as at the Olympic games it is not the handsomest or strongest men who are crowned with victory but the successful competitors, so in life it is those who act rightly who carry off all the prizes and rewards.

A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.

Find the good. Seek the Unity. Ignore the divisions among us.

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

For knowing is spoken of in three ways: it may be either universal knowledge or knowledge proper to the matter in hand or actualising such knowledge; consequently three kinds of error also are possible.

Adventure is worthwhile.