When a man's struggle begins within oneself, the man is worth something.

Justice makes the life of such as are in prosperity, power and authority the life of a god, and injustice turns it to that of a beast.

These Macedonians are a rude and clownish people; they call a spade a spade.

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

Nature and wisdom never are at strife.