Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.
A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things.
Until philosophers hold power, neither states nor individuals will have rest from trouble.
It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.
Man is a biped without feathers.
Madness is a divine release of the soul from the yoke of custom and convention.