"To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. How could I have looked him in the face?"

"The government is best which governs not at all."

"Wealth is the ability to fully experience life."

"Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul."

"What does it mean to be a philosopher? It means to be able to say, 'I have seen the world, and I have found it good.'"