What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

The house should derive dignity from the master, not the master from the house.

It is like taking the sun out of the world, to bereave human life of friendship.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and justice would perish forever.

In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.