Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training... what a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

If you want to be wrong then follow the masses.

The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.

There are a great many of these accusers, and they have been accusing me now for a great many years, and what is more, they approached you at the most impressionable age, when some of you were children or adolescents; and literally won their case by default, because there was no one to defend me.