No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.
Friendship is one soul in two bodies.
most men and women, by birth or nature, lack the means to advance in wealth or power, but all have the ability to advance in knowledge.
Government exists only for the good of the governed.
Above all things, respect yourself.
He who knoweth not what he ought to know, is a brute beast among men; he that knoweth no more than he hath need of, is a man among brute beasts; and he that knoweth all that may be known, is as a God among men.