. . . for until that God who rules all the region of the sky . . . has freed you from the fetters of your body, you cannot gain admission here. Men were created with the understanding that they were to look after that sphere called Earth, which you see in the middle of the temple. Minds have been given to them out of the eternal fires you call fixed stars and planets, those spherical solids which, quickened with divine minds, journey through their circuits and orbits with amazing speed.

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.

God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called 'justice.

Nothing is more disgraceful than insincerity.

Time is the herald of truth.

It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.