Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!

Do not give sentence in another tribunal till you have been yourself judged in the tribunal of Justice.

Freedom is the name of virtue: Slavery, of vice:. None is a slave whose acts are free.

Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.

The great fault of all ethics hitherto has been that they believed themselves to have to deal only with the relations of man to man. In reality, however, the q…

Virtue is its own reward.

Of late, men seem to have been possessed by an incomprehensible impulse to strip themselves of everything with which nature has endowed them in order to make t…