“He who desires is always poor.”

“Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!”

“Who, I ask, ever found salvation through the conquests of Alexander? What city was ever more wisely governed because of them, what individual improved? Many indeed you might find whom those conquests enriched, but not one whom they made wiser or more temperate than he was by nature, if indeed they have not made him more insolent and arrogant. Whereas all who now find their salvation in philosophy owe it to Socrates.”

“Ladies and gentlemen, let the Seventy-fourth Hunger Games begin!”

“Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people's women who pay the most.”

“A man who desires to soften another man's heart, should always abuse himself. In softening a woman's heart, he should abuse her.”

“He was poor and foolish and people will always have a place in their hearts for the harmless.”