Freedom is self-determination.

If anyone conceives, that an object of his love joins itself to another with closer bonds of friendship than he himself has attained to, he will be affected with hatred towards the loved object and with envy towards his rival.

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

Everything great is just as difficult to realize as it is rare to find.

He, who knows how to distinguish between true and false, must have an adequate idea of true and false.

Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.

He who hates anyone will endeavor to do him an injury, unless he fears that a greater injury will thereby accrue to himself; on the other hand, he who loves anyone will, by the same law, seek to benefit him.