Whether we call it sacrifice, or poetry, or adventure, it is always the same voice that calls.

The tyrant, who in order to hold his power, suppresses every superiority, does away with good men, forbids education and light, controls every movement of the citizens and, keeping them under a perpetual servitude, wants them to grow accustomed to baseness and cowardice, has his spies everywhere to listen to what is said in the meetings, and spreads dissension and calumny among the citizens and impoverishes them, is obliged to make war in order to keep his subjects occupied and impose on them permanent need of a chief.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.

If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent.

The soul is the form of the body

It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.