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

I would have you imagine, then, that there exists in the mind of man a block of wax... and that we remember and know what is imprinted as long as the image lasts; but when the image is effaced, or cannot be taken, then we forget or do not know.

Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.

Man's greatest victory is over oneself.

I do not live to play, but I play in order that I may live, and return with greater zest to the labors of life.

Ideas are the source of all things

The three wishes of every man: to be healthy, to be rich by honest means, and to be beautiful.