It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.
Nature of man is not what he was born as, but what he is born for.
We become just by the practice of just actions.
The citizens begin by giving up some part of the constitution, and so with greater ease the government change something else which is a little more important, until they have undermined the whole fabric of the state.
The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want.