In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.

We are all excited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory.

We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.

No sober person dances.

What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, but also by beasts, and to be prepared in all things.

I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.

To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.