It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
And this lies in the nature of things: What people are potentially is revealed in actuality by what they produce.
When Pleasure is at the bar the jury is not impartial.
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.