Men practice war; beasts do not.

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.

The way to wickedness is always through wickedness.

The tempest threatens before it comes; houses creak before they fall.

Solitude and company may be allowed to take their turns: the one creates in us the love of mankind, the other that of ourselves; solitude relieves us when we are sick of company, and conversation when we are weary of being alone, so that the one cures the other. There is no man so miserable as he that is at a loss how to use his time

Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.