In a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state.

. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.

Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.