One who faces and who fears the right things and from the right motive, in the right way and at the right time, posseses character worthy of our trust and admiration.

We ought not to listen to those who exhort us, because we are human, to think of human things....We ought rather to take on immortality as much as possible, and do all that we can to live in accordance with the highest element within us; for even if its bulk is small, in its power and value it far exceeds everything.

The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the principles of mathematics were the principles of all things.

A right election can only be made by those who have knowledge.

The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it.

For those who possess and can wield arms are in a position to decide whether the constitution is to continue or not

A man is his own best friend; therefore he ought to love himself best.