Hope is a waking dream.

Not to know of what things one should demand demonstration, and of what one should not, argues want of education.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

What has soul in it differs from what has not, in that the former displays life. Now this word has more than one sense, and provided any one alone of these is found in a thing we say that thing is living. Living, that is, may mean thinking or perception or local movement and rest, or movement in the sense of nutrition, decay and growth. Hence we think of plants also as living, for they are observed to possess in themselves an originative power through which they increase or decrease in all spatial directions.

Life cannot be lived, and understood, simultaneously.