. . . Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

The line has magnitude in one way, the plane in two ways, and the solid in three ways, and beyond these there is no other magnitude because the three are all.

Courage is the mother of all virtues because without it, you cannot consistently perform the others.

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.

It makes no difference whether a good man has defrauded a bad man, or a bad man defrauded a good man, or whether a good or bad man has committed adultery: the law can look only to the amount of damage done.

We are what we continually do.