"Every king springs from a race of slaves, and every slave had kings among his ancestors."

"Most men in power become villains."

"A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand."

"A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul."

"Eat and drink and sit with the mighty, and make yourself agreeable to them; for from the good you will learn what is good, but if you mix with the bad you will lose the intelligence which you already have."

"Man is a being in search of meaning."

"A freeman ought not to be a slave in the acquisition of knowledge of any kind. Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."

"There is, in my view, the birth of society that each of us, far from being sufficient to itself, on the contrary need a large number of people."

"This alone is to be feared: the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of spirit.,."

"He whom love touches not walks in darkness."

"It is easy to forgive children who are afraid of the dark but the real tragedy of life is men who are afraid of the light."

"I perplex others, not because I am clear, but because I am utterly perplexed myself."