Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
People never know each other until they have eaten a certain amount of salt together.
Men are marked from the moment of birth to rule or be ruled.
Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.
You can never learn anything that you did not already know
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.