Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions; . . . that laws were like cobwebs, - for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast; while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.

Love comes with hunger.

If you are to be kept right, you must possess either good friends or red-hot enemies. The one will warn you, the other will expose you.

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

Fools! You think of "god" as a sentient being. God is the word used to represent a force. This force created nothing, it just helps things along. It does not answer prayers, although it may make you think of a way to solve a problem. It has the power to influence you, but not decide for you.