I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

We can more easily avenge an injury than requite a kindness; on this account, because there is less difficulty in getting the better of the wicked than in making one's self equal with the good.

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

There is no opinion so stupid that it can't be expressed by some philosopher.