Lightning will wreck its displeasures not only upon pillars, trees, and sheep, but upon altars and temples, and let the sacrilegious go free.

Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes.

If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.

Human nature is so constituted that insults sink deeper than kindnesses; the remembrance of the latter soon passes away, while that of the former is treasured in the memory.

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

Life without the courage to die is slavery.

Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.