Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.

The human race is in the best condition when it has the greatest degree of liberty.

Do ye not comprehend that we are worms born to bring forth the angelic butterfly that flieth unto judgment without screen?

Not one drop of blood is left inside my veins that does not throb: I recognize signs of the ancient flame.

The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.

I affirm that gain is precisely that which comes oftener to the bad man than to the good; for illegitimate gains never come to the good at all, because they reject them. And lawful gains rarely come to the good, because, since much anxious care is needful thereto, and the anxious care of the good man is directed to weightier matters, rarely does the good man give sufficient attention thereto. Wherefore it is clear that in every way the advent of these riches is iniquitous.