The man who is fortunate in his choice of son-in-law gains a son; the man unfortunate in his choice loses his daughter also.
Life unexamined, is not worth living.
Envy creates the beginning of strife.
The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.