What is honored in a country will be cultivated there.

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

Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.

I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.

In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together. With these means, man can attain perfection.

That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in gratifying them, he is esteemed a great statesman.

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.