What is the highest of all goods achievable by action? ...both the general run of man and people of superior refinement say that it is happiness ...but with regard to what happiness is they differ.

Shipping magnate of the 20th century If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved.

That in the soul which is called mind (by mind I mean that whereby the soul thinks and judges) is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing. For this reason it cannot reasonably be regarded as blended with the body

Of the irrational part of the soul again one division appears to be common to all living things, and of a vegetative nature.

Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder.

The bad man is continually at war with, and in opposition to, himself.