No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

Education is the best provision for old age.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill

Change in all things is sweet.

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

The soul never thinks without a picture.

Wit is educated insolence

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

We make war that we may live in peace.

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist. 

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.