The makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems, or of parents for their children, besides that natural love of it for the sake of use and profit.
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics.
Integrity is your destiny-it is the light that guides your way.
For though a man should be a complete unbeliever in the being of gods; if he also has a native uprightness of temper, such persons will detest evil in men; their repugnance to wrong disinclines them to commit wrongful acts; they shun the unrighteous and are drawn to the upright.