True blessedness consisteth in a good life and a happy death.

A half truth is the worst of all lies,because it can be defended in partiality.

In the ideal State laws are few and simple, because they have been derived from certainties. In the corrupt State laws are many and confused, because they have been derived from uncertainties.

He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.

Laws are like spider's webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can break through and get away.

Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.

Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

We can have justice whenever those who have not been injured by injustice are as outraged by it as those who have been.

Often the wicked prosper, while the righteous starve; yet I would never exchange my state for theirs, my virtue for their gold. For mine endures, while riches change their owner every day.

The ideal state is that in which an injury done to the least of its citizens is an injury done to all.

In all things that you do, consider the end.

Use love as the only instrument to question the world around you.

He keeps his voice kindly but remote. A cross between a pedagogue, soothsayer, and a benevolent uncle – that should be his tone.

The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.

That amenity which the French have developed into a great art . . . conversation.

We are blind to each other's humanity.

It would be wonderful if this world was guided by little children, because they are closer to life than anyone else.

People of all countries have the right to choose their own social system and road to development in the light of their national conditions and characteristics.

Any acting job that I ever got, I always treated it like I was a neophyte, I didn't know what I was doing and I was going to work just as hard as I do on my stand-up.

I like to stay in the moment.

When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.