"You don’t seem to love money too much. And those who haven’t made their own money are usually like you. But those who have made it for themselves are twice as fond of it as those who haven’t."

"The harder you work, the luckier you get."

"All enquiry and all learning is but recollection."

"It's not at all uncommon to find a person's desires compelling him to go against his reason, and to see him cursing himself and venting his passion on the source of the compulsion within him. It's as if there were two warring factions, with passion fighting on the side of reason."

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

"Now actions vary according to the manner of their performance. Take, for example, that which we are now doing, drinking, singing and talking these actions are not in themselves either good or evil, but they turn out in this or that way according to the mode of performing them; and when well done they are good, and when wrongly done they are evil; and in like manner not every love, but only that which has a noble purpose, is noble and worthy of praise."

"He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it."

"Isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is?"

"Let nobody speak mischief of anybody."

"Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains; some in desires, and some in fears; and some are cowards under the same conditions."

"If a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest."

"This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence ... a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related."