I live as I choose or I will not live at all.
No man in the world acts up to his own standard of right.
The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.
I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.
A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.
People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants.
Art does not begin with imitation, but with discipline.
There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure.
He wasn't completely wrong, poor old Gemistus (let Lord Andronicus and the patriarch suspect him if they like), in wanting us, telling us to become pagan once again.
Thought rules mankind.