The best tragedies are conflicts between a hero and his destiny.

Thus then a single harmony orders the composition of the whole...by the mingling of the most contrary principles.

He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.

A brave man is clear in his discourse, and keeps close to truth.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

The angry man wishes the object of his anger to suffer in return; hatred wishes its object not to exist.

When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a constitution.