There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what loss have you in losing your cruelty? It merely deprives you of the food of lions and vultures...let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.

You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.

True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.

To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-

Let him who has granted a favour speak not of it; let him who has received one, proclaim it.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.