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.

To be endowed with strength by nature, to be actuated by the powers of the mind, and to have a certain spirit almost divine infused into you.

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

I am a Roman citizen.

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.

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