Education is the best provision for old age.

Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.

The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.

Friendship is communion.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

...perhaps there is some element of good even in the simple act of living, so long as the evils of existence do not preponderate too heavily.

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