A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.

Welcome out of the cave, my friend. It's a bit colder out here, but the stars are just beautiful.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Courage is knowing what to fear.

The cause of all the blunders committed by man arises from this excessive self-love. For the lover is blinded by the object loved; so that he passes a wrong judgment on what is just, good and beautiful, thinking that he ought always to honor what belongs to himself in preference to truth. For he who intends to be a great man ought to love neither himself nor his own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by himself, or by another.

Perfect wisdom has four parts: Wisdom, the principle of doing things aright. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it. Temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.

Anything worth knowing is already known and must be remembered and reclaimed by the soul.