A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense.

Socrates indeed when he was asked of what country he called himself said 'Of the world' for he considered himself an inhabitant and a citizen of the whole world.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.