He who acknowledges a kindness has it still, and he who has a grateful sense of it has requited it.

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.

As a philosopher, I have a right to ask for a rational explanation of religious faith.

It is besides necessary that whoever is brave should be a man of great soul.

There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration.

My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner.

For while we are enclosed in these confinements of the body, we perform as a kind of duty the heavy task of necessity; for the soul from heaven has been cast down from its dwelling on high and sunk, as it were, into the earth, a place just the opposite to godlike nature and eternity. But I believe that the immortal gods have sown souls in human bodies so there might exist beings to guard the world and after contemplating the order of heaven, might imitate it by their moderation and steadfastness in life.