Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.
The proper way to resist evil is to absolutely refuse to do evil either for one’s self or for others.
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.
The closer we come to death, the more important becomes this single indispensable thing called life.
And all people live, not by reason of any care they have for themselves, but by the love for them that is in other people.