Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in gratifying them, he is esteemed a great statesman.

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

There is yet something remaining for the dead, and some far better thing for the good than for the evil.

Everything changes and nothing remains still.

Wisdom is a blaze, kindled by a leaping spark.

Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.