Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.

Virtue isn't not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.

To a wise man, the whole earth is open; for the native land of a good soul is the whole earth.

All things happen by virtue of necessity.

The whole Earth is at the hand of the wise man, since the fatherland of an elevated soul is the Universe.