I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

Anger represents a certain power, when a great mind, prevented from executing its own generous desires, is moved by it.

What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we!

The best thing for a man to do is to be born and, being born, to die at once.

Flee laziness which while it produces an immediate delight, ends in the sorrow of repentance. And know that nature without exercise is a seed shut up in the pod, and art without practice is nothing.

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.

A man who permits his honor to be taken, permits his life to be taken.