Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.

Love of one is a piece of barbarism: for it is practised at the expense of all others. Love of God likewise.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

A good seat on a horse steals away your opponent's courage and your onlooker's heart-what reason is there to attack? Sit like one who has conquered?

The object of convalescence ought to be to turn our attention to life: at other times, simply to our tasks!

The destiny of the human race is to widen the gap separating it from the lower races of animals. Any code of morality which retains its permanence and authority after the conditions of existence which gave rise to it have changed, works against this upward progress of man.

In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary.