When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work.

He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect.

Now in regard to trades and other means of livelihood, which ones are to be considered becoming to a gentleman and which ones are vulgar, we have been taught, in general, as follows. First, those means of livelihood are rejected as undesirable which incur people's ill-will, as those of tax-gatherers and usurers. Unbecoming to a gentleman, too, and vulgar are the means of livelihood of all hired workmen whom we pay for mere manual labour, not for artistic skill; for in their case the very wage they receive is a pledge of their slavery.

Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.