"All wars are fought for the acquisition..." - Quote by Socrates

“To find yourself, think for yourself.”

“Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires.”

“The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.”

“Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.”

“And so long as I can laugh, never will I be poor. This then, is one of nature's greatest gifts and I will waste it no more.”

“There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbors. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry.”

“The law is silent during war.[Lat., Silent leges inter arma.]”

“I don't have to attend every argument I'm invited to.”

“Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.”