"Courage is a kind of salvation."

"Man - a being in search of meaning."

"Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil."

"The soul of man is immortal and imperishable."

"Death is not the worst that can happen to men."

"Everything that deceives may be said to enchant."

“It is only the dead who have seen the end of war”

"Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety."

"He who is not a good servant will not be a good master."

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."

“Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.”

"A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers."

"For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories."

"As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser."

"Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another."

"Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others."

“He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it”

"Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge."

"Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly."

“No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.”

"Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns."

"All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue."

"He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power."

"Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery."

“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.”

“There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.”

“Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.”

"Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent."

"Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens."

"A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants."

"The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows."

"Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike."

"Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty."

"How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?"

"Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil."

Compiled by Thomas George
editor@BoycottLiberalism.com