The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

And what shall he suffer who slays him who of all men, as they say, is his own best friend? I mean the suicide, who deprives himself by violence of his appointed share of life. Not because the law of the state requires him. Nor yet under the compulsion of some painful and inevitable misfortune which has come upon him. Nor because he has had to suffer from irremediable and intolerable shame, but who from sloth or want of manliness imposes upon himself an unjust penalty.

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.

A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

Let no one destitute of geometry enter my doors.

No soul willfully does wrong.