I don't know anything that gives me greater pleasure, or profit either, than talking or listening to philosophy. But when it comes to ordinary conversation, such as the stuff you talk about financiers and the money market, well, I find it pretty tiresome personally, and I feel sorry that my friends should think they're being very busy when they're really doing absolutely nothing. Of course, I know your idea of me: you think I'm just a poor unfortunate, and I shouldn't wonder if your right. But then I dont THINK that you're unfortunate - I know you are.

May I do to others as I would that they should do unto me.

In a democracy only will the freeman of nature design to dwell.

A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction.

You should not honor men more than truth.

Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been elaborated.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.