The most happy ought to wish for death.

It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.

To govern was to serve, not to rule.

Life is never incomplete if it is an honorable one. At whatever point you leave life, if you leave it in the right way, it is whole.

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.

The soul has this proof of divinity: that divine things delight it.