Statesman are suspected of plotting against mankind, rather than consulting their interests, and are esteemed more crafty than learned.
Minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness.
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
Everything in nature is a cause from which there flows some effect.
Everything great is just as difficult to realize as it is rare to find.
If we love something similar to ourselves, we endeavor, as far as we can, to bring it about that it should love us in return.