Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.

Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.

He who bears injustice alone is terrible to behold.

Egoism is the law of perspective applied to feelings: what is closest appears large and weighty, and as one moves farther away size and weight decrease.

There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.

Moderation sees itself as beautiful; it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently ugly-looking.