The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
More men have become great through practice than by nature.
Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.
Life unexamined, is not worth living.
The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
Fortune provides a man's table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.