No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.
I call myself a Peaceful Warrior... because the battles we fight are on the inside.
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
How can you call a man free when his pleasures rule over him.
Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.