What society does to its children, so will its children do to society.
The real friend is another self.
Sometimes I do what I want to. The rest of the time- I do what I have to.
In times of war, the law falls silent.
Little by little old age renders the body less powerful.
As a philosopher, I have a right to ask for a rational explanation of religious faith.
An old man with something of the youth in him, may feel young in mind and heart only.
Action is the language of the body and should harmonize with the spirit within.
Nature has granted the use of life like a loan, without fixing any day for repayment.
Philosophy is the true mother of science.
The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied.
All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in darkness without the light of literature...
A man has no enemy worse than himself.
Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition.
Armed forces abroad are of little value unless there is prudent counsel at home.
The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present.
The avarice of the old: it’s absurd to increase one’s luggage as one nears the journey’s end.
You might as well take the sun out of the sky as friendship from life: for the immortal gods have given us nothing better or more delightful.
Fire and water are not of more universal use than friendship.
There are two ways to resolve conflicts, through violence or through negotiation. Violence is for wild beasts, negotiation is for human beings.