They are, all of them, born with raging fanaticism in their hearts, just as the Bretons and the Germans are born with blond hair. I would not be in the least bit surprised if these people would not some day become deadly to the human race.

You might as well take the sun out of the sky as friendship from life: for the immortal gods have given us nothing better or more delightful.

Let your desires be ruled by reason.

There is no mortal whom pain and disease do not reach.

Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth living.

This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant grows.

Whatever befalls in accordance with nature should be accounted good.