The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. ... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.

Follow your dream as long as you live, do not lessen the time of following desire, for wasting time is an abomination of the spirit.

Wine fills the heart with courage.

No one ever dies an atheist.