“Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.”

“For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.”

“Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.”

“In this statement, my Scipio, I build on your own admirable definition, that there can be no community, properly so called, unless it be regulated by a combination of rights. And by this definition it appears that a multitude of men may be just as tyrannical as a single despot and indeed this is the most odious of all tyrannies, since no monster can be more barbarous than the mob, which assumes the name and mask of the people.”

“It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.”

“The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.”

“A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.”