For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, others the art of living well.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true.

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

The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.