The wolf cares not, how many the sheep be.

The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. ... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding.

To be at once exceedingly wealthy and good is impossible.

Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.

Man was not made for himself alone