If you want to make life easy, make it hard.
The sickness of the heart is most easily got rid of by complaining and soothing confidence.
Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best.
Some of our weaknesses are born in us, others are the result of education; it is a question which of the two gives us most trouble.
The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.