Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

[Hope is] the dream of a waking man.

A good style must, first of all, be clear. It must not be mean or above the dignity of the subject. It must be appropriate.

There is nothing strange in the circle being the origin of any and every marvel.

Women should marry when they are about eighteen years of age, and men at seven and thirty; then they are in the prime of life, and the decline in the powers of both will coincide.

All human happiness and misery take the form of action.

Now the greatest external good we should assume to be the thing which we offer as a tribute to the gods, and which is most coveted by men of high station, and is the prize awarded for the noblest deeds; and such a thing is honor, for honor is clearly the greatest of external goods.