No one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.

Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary.

Friends should have all things in common.

Those whose hearts are fixed on Reality itself deserve the title of Philosophers.

The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.

Democracy does not contain any force which will check the constant tendency to put more and more on the public payroll. The state is like a hive of bees in which the drones display, multiply and starve the workers so the idlers will consume the food and the workers will perish.

No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.