Let every man remind their descendants that they also are soldiers who must not desert the ranks of their ancestors, or from cowardice fall behind.

If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility.

According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.

The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a moment into existence, and then perishes.

The laws of democracy remain a dead letter, its freedom is anarchy, its equality the equality of unequals

He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act

My plainness of speech makes people hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.