True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.

No one should be subjected to force over things which belonged to him.

Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself; if he belittles himself, he is believed; if he praises himself, he isn't believed.

I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.