The life of which meaning one never ponders is not worth living

When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.

I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at once for not yielding.

Before the birth of Love, many fearful things took place through the empire of necessity; but when this god was born, all things rose to men.

Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.

In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.

Talk in order that I may see you.