“You should know there is nothing more dangerous than a man who is not afraid to die. i have lost everything, but that frees me.”

“There is nothing more dangerous than a man who has nothing to gain.”

“I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.”

“There is nothing more powerful and nothing more dangerously beautiful than a free mind.”

“It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.”

“I was not much afraid of punishment, I was only afraid of disgrace.But that I feared more than death, more than crime, more than anything in the world. I should have rejoiced if the earth had swallowed me up and stifled me in the abyss. But my invincible sense of shame prevailed over everything . It was my shame that made me impudent, and the more wickedly I behaved the bolder my fear of confession made me. I saw nothing but the horror of being found out, of being publicly proclaimed, to my face, as a thief, as a liar, and slanderer.”