People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

What is honored in a country will be cultivated there.

Experience proves that anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker to grasp difficult subjects than one who has not.

Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.

Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain.

The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.