Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

Even that some people try deceived me many times ... I will not fail to believe that somewhere, someone deserves my trust.

We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.