1. “Politics are not born; they are excreted.”
2. “Function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.”
3. “Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decision of nature.”
4. “Freedom is participation in power.”
5. “Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.”
6. “The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.”
7. “Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom”
8. “Life is noting without friendship.”
9. “It is a great thing to know your vices.”
10. “The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.”
11. “A man of courage is also full of faith.”
12. “We are bound by law, so that we may be free.”
13. “Never injure a friend, even in jest.”
14. “A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.”
15. “Ability without honor is useless.”
16. “Freedom will bite back more fiercely when suspended than when she remains undisturbed.”
17. “A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters”
18. “Kindness is stronger than fear.”
19. “Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.”
20. “He who employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.”
21. “To make a mistake is only human; to persist in a mistake is idiotic.”
22. “Endless money forms the sinews of war.”
23. “A home without books is a body without a soul.”
24. “Wisdom is the only thing which can banish sorrow from the breast.”
25. “Silence is one of the great arts of conversion.”
26. “A unjust peace is better than a just war.”
27. “What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.”
28. “The fruit of too much of liberty is slavery.”
29. “A man of courage is also full of faith.”
30. “Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.”
