He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

To love someone is to identify with them.

Love is composed of single soul inhabiting two bodies.

To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.

Through discipline comes freedom.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

The actuality of thought is life.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

The secret to humor is surprise.

Something is infinite if, taking it quantity by quantity, we can always take something outside.

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotism.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

I have gained this by philosophy that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Hope is a waking dream.

Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.