"What is the whole life of mortals, but a sort of comedy, in which various persons, disguised in various costumes and masks, walk forth and play their respective parts, until the manager waves them off…"

"It is a most miserable thing to be a slave to one's own desires."

"The highest good is to live according to one's own nature."

"I would rather be a fool in a just cause than a wise man in an unjust one."

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."